GHSA-36p7-vc44-83pf

ChromaDB has a code injection vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2026-45833

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	chromadb	>= 0.4.17, <= 1.5.9	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A code injection vulnerability in version 0.4.17 or later of the ChromaDB Python project allows an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary code on the server by sending a malicious model repository and trust_remote_code set to true in the /api/v2/tenants/default_tenant/databases/default_database/collections/{collection_id} if they have the UPDATE_COLLECTION permission.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45833 advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45833 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488430 web
https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma package
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45833.json web
https://www.hiddenlayer.com/sai-security-advisory/2026-06-chromadb-5 web