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GHSA-xrqw-3rrv-vx5w

Transformers save_pretrained path traversal allows arbitrary file writes through chat template names

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-9856

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI transformers < 5.10.0 5.10.0

Details

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A vulnerability in huggingface/transformers versions < 5.10.0 allows an attacker to perform arbitrary file writes via path traversal. The issue resides in the `save_pretrained()` methods of `PreTrainedTokenizerBase` and `ProcessorMixin`, where keys from the `chat_template` dictionary are used directly as filenames without proper validation. An attacker can exploit this by publishing a malicious Hugging Face Hub repository with a crafted `tokenizer_config.json` file. When a victim downloads and saves the tokenizer or processor, the attacker-controlled keys can escape the intended save directory, enabling arbitrary file writes with attacker-controlled content. This vulnerability affects multiple processors inheriting from `ProcessorMixin`, including Idefics, Florence, Gemma, Phi, and Qwen-VL.

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