CVE-2026-54499

high

Description

Stanza is a Stanford NLP Python library for tokenization, sentence segmentation, NER, and parsing of many human languages. Prior to 1.12.2, Stanza model loaders such as stanza.models.common.pretrain.Pretrain.load() attempt torch.load(..., weights_only=True) but fall back to torch.load(..., weights_only=False) on attacker-controllable pickle.UnpicklingError, allowing a malicious .pt pretrain or model file to execute arbitrary pickle code when a Stanza NLP pipeline loads it. This issue is fixed in version 1.12.2.

References

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/security/advisories/GHSA-v5jw-96jm-7h2c

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/releases/tag/v1.12.2

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/pull/1587

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/commit/b745008c68c9e50ccb5acd537cb6f2453f8b7ad4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-08

Updated: 2026-07-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00302