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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-106442 EUVD-2026-93665GHSA-rqx7-p7vv-w7hrPYSEC-2026-4223

Hydra instantiate target blacklist bypasses permit code execution

Published Oct 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 7, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Hydra is a framework for elegantly configuring complex applications. From 1.3.4 until 1.3.6 and 1.4.0.dev9, the instantiate() target blacklist introduced for CVE-2026-68508 incompletely checks the effective callable selected by the target field. Execution wrappers such as timeit.timeit, executable deserialization through pickle.loads, aliases, callable-returning helpers, generic dispatch, and deferred calls can obscure or defer the effective target and bypass name-based authorization. An attacker who causes an application to instantiate untrusted Hydra configuration can use these gaps to execute code with the application's privileges. This issue is fixed in versions 1.3.6 and 1.4.0.dev9.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
hydra-ecosystem hydra >= 1.3.4, < 1.3.6, >= 1.4.0.dev0, < 1.4.0.dev9 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI hydra-core >= 1.3.4, < 1.3.6 1.3.6 GHSA-rqx7-p7vv-w7hr
PyPI hydra-core >= 1.4.0.dev0, < 1.4.0.dev9 1.4.0.dev9 GHSA-rqx7-p7vv-w7hr
PyPI hydra-core >= 1.3.4, < 1.3.6 · >= 1.4.0.dev0, < 1.4.0.dev9 1.3.6, 1.4.0.dev9 PYSEC-2026-4223

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