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SCA: security update for transformers (GHSA-fgcw-684q-jj6r)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 445003

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A vulnerability in the LightGlue model loading path of huggingface/transformers version 5.2.0 allows an
 attacker-controlled model repository to execute arbitrary code during model initialization. The issue
 arises because the `trust_remote_code` parameter, intended to prevent remote code execution, is overridden
 by untrusted serialized configuration data in a nested code path. Specifically, when loading a LightGlue
 model using `AutoModel.from_pretrained()` with `trust_remote_code=False`, the `LightGlueConfig` reads the
 `trust_remote_code` value from the untrusted `config.json` file and propagates it into nested
 `AutoConfig.from_pretrained()` calls. This results in the execution of attacker-provided Python modules,
 even when the victim explicitly disables remote code execution. The vulnerability poses a high risk for
 environments such as API inference servers, research notebooks, CI/CD pipelines, and model evaluation
 workers, potentially leading to credential theft, lateral movement, or persistence/backdoor deployment.
 (CVE-2026-5241)

Solution

Update the transformers library and its related packages to version 5.5.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fgcw-684q-jj6r

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 445003

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/21/2026

Updated: 7/21/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.16

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-5241

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-5241

cwe: CWE-829