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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-54499 EUVD-2026-42474GHSA-v5jw-96jm-7h2cPYSEC-2026-3075

Stanza: Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in Model Loaders

Published Jul 8, 2026 · Updated Jul 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
stanfordnlp stanza < 1.12.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI stanza < 1.12.2 1.12.2 GHSA-v5jw-96jm-7h2c

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