GHSA-53q9-r3pm-6pq6

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-53q9-r3pm-6pq6

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/04/GHSA-53q9-r3pm-6pq6/GHSA-53q9-r3pm-6pq6.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-53q9-r3pm-6pq6

Aliases

Published

2025-04-18T15:19:28Z

Modified

2025-04-22T07:58:41.347412Z

Severity

9.3 (Critical) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

PyTorch: `torch.load` with `weights_only=True` leads to remote code execution

Details

Description

I found a Remote Command Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the PyTorch. When load model using torch.load with weights_only=True, it can still achieve RCE.

Background knowledge

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/security As you can see, the PyTorch official documentation considers using torch.load() with weights_only=True to be safe. Since everyone knows that weightsonly=False is unsafe, so they will use the weightsonly=True to mitigate the security issue. But now, I just proved that even if you use weights_only=True, it still can achieve RCE. So it is time to update your PyTorch version~.

Credit

This vulnerability was found by Ji'an Zhou.

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-04-18T16:15:23Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-502"
    ],
    "severity": "CRITICAL",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-04-18T15:19:28Z"
}

References

Affected packages

PyPI / torch

Package

Name: torch; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:pypi/torch

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.6.0

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.0

1.0.1

1.1.0

1.2.0

1.3.0

1.3.1

1.4.0

1.5.0

1.5.1

1.6.0

1.7.0

1.7.1

1.8.0

1.8.1

1.9.0

1.9.1

1.10.0

1.10.1

1.10.2

1.11.0

1.12.0

1.12.1

1.13.0

1.13.1

2.*

2.0.0

2.0.1

2.1.0

2.1.1

2.1.2

2.2.0

2.2.1

2.2.2

2.3.0

2.3.1

2.4.0

2.4.1

2.5.0

2.5.1

Database specific

{
    "last_known_affected_version_range": "<= 2.5.1"
}