CVE-2026-65010

medium

Description

Datasets through 5.00, fixed in commit ad2d853, contains a symlink-following vulnerability in Extractor.extract() that allows local attackers to write arbitrary files by pre-planting symlinks at predictable output paths. Attackers can redirect archive extraction to arbitrary filesystem locations in shared-cache environments, enabling overwrite of sensitive files and potential privilege escalation or code execution.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/datasets-symlink-following-arbitrary-file-write-via-extractor-extract

https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/pull/8303

https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/8296

https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/commit/ad2d853ae2ce41d8068c23b44c2e29004312ccee

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-23

Updated: 2026-07-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.2

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00133