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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-9856 EUVD-2026-52005GHSA-xrqw-3rrv-vx5wPYSEC-2026-3929

Path Traversal in huggingface/transformers

Published Aug 2, 2026 · Updated Aug 3, 2026 · Assigned by @huntr_ai

Description

A vulnerability in huggingface/transformers versions <=5.8.0.dev0 allows an attacker to perform arbitrary file writes via path traversal. The issue resides in the `save_pretrained()` methods of `PreTrainedTokenizerBase` and `ProcessorMixin`, where keys from the `chat_template` dictionary are used directly as filenames without proper validation. An attacker can exploit this by publishing a malicious Hugging Face Hub repository with a crafted `tokenizer_config.json` file. When a victim downloads and saves the tokenizer or processor, the attacker-controlled keys can escape the intended save directory, enabling arbitrary file writes with attacker-controlled content. This vulnerability affects multiple processors inheriting from `ProcessorMixin`, including Idefics, Florence, Gemma, Phi, and Qwen-VL.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
huggingface huggingface/transformers unspecified – < 5.10.0 5.10.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling open-webui 0.11.3-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI transformers < 5.10.0 5.10.0 GHSA-xrqw-3rrv-vx5w

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