{"id":"CVE-2026-62997","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-62997","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:27:32.585Z","title":"On PyTorch versions earlier than 2.6, a malicious pickle-backed model from an attacker-influenced shared registry, downloaded checkpoint, or partitioned external source can execute arbitrary code when a Kedro pipeline loads it.","description":"Kedro-Datasets provides data connectors for Kedro. From version 5.0.0 until 9.5.0, kedro_datasets_experimental.pytorch.PyTorchDataset in kedro-datasets loads .pt model files with torch.load without enforcing weights_only=True, and user-supplied load_args are silently dropped. On PyTorch versions earlier than 2.6, a malicious pickle-backed model from an attacker-influenced shared registry, downloaded checkpoint, or partitioned external source can execute arbitrary code when a Kedro pipeline loads it. The issue affects only the opt-in kedro_datasets_experimental component and does not affect users who load only trusted files. This issue is fixed in version 9.5.0.","published":"2026-09-16T21:17:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-30T17:51:56.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":7.7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-502"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00686,"percentile":0.52357,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.69%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-plugins/commit/4d6deb7a7ecba483d33fd43e2a6c063bcf22f413","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-plugins/issues/1431","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-plugins/pull/1433","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-plugins/releases/tag/kedro-datasets-9.5.0","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-plugins/security/advisories/GHSA-f9q4-h45w-jrrq","source":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-62997","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}