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HuggingFace Transformers allows for arbitrary code execution in the Trainer class

CVE-2026-1839 / GHSA-69w3-r845-3855

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A vulnerability in the HuggingFace Transformers library, specifically in the Trainer class, allows for arbitrary code execution. The _load_rng_state() method in src/transformers/trainer.py at line 3059 calls torch.load() without the weights_only=True parameter. This issue affects all versions of the library supporting torch>=2.2 when used with PyTorch versions below 2.6, as the safe_globals() context manager provides no protection in these versions. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by supplying a malicious checkpoint file, such as rng_state.pth, which can execute arbitrary code when loaded. The issue is resolved in version v5.0.0rc3.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 6.5 / 10 (Medium)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H

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HuggingFace transformers vulnerable to remote code execution

CVE-2026-4372 / GHSA-29pf-2h5f-8g72

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A critical remote code execution vulnerability exists in all versions of the HuggingFace transformers library prior to version 5.3.0. The vulnerability allows an attacker to craft a malicious config.json file containing the _attn_implementation_internal field set to an attacker-controlled HuggingFace Hub repository ID. When a victim loads this model using the standard AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained() API, the library downloads and executes arbitrary Python code from the attacker's repository with the victim's full OS privileges. This issue arises due to unfiltered deserialization of configuration attributes, insufficient sanitization of internal fields, and unsandboxed execution of downloaded kernels. The vulnerability bypasses the trust_remote_code security mechanism, is invisible to the victim, and exploits the standard documented usage pattern, making it particularly severe. Users are advised to upgrade to version 5.3.0 or later to mitigate this issue.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 7.8 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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huggingface/transformers: Arbitrary Code Execution During Model Initialization in the LightGlue Model Loading Path

CVE-2026-5241 / GHSA-fgcw-684q-jj6r

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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.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 8.0 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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Transformers save_pretrained path traversal allows arbitrary file writes through chat template names

CVE-2026-9856 / GHSA-xrqw-3rrv-vx5w

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A vulnerability in huggingface/transformers versions < 5.10.0 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.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 7.1 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

References

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Release Notes

huggingface/transformers (transformers)

v5.10.1

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Release v5.10.1

v5.10.0 was yanked as we publish on a corrupted branch. Sorry everyone, this happens when we rush a release!!!

New Model additions

Gemma4 unified+ Gemma4 MTP
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Gemma 4 12B Unified is an encoder-free multimodal model with pretrained and instruction-tuned variants. Unlike standard Gemma 4, which uses dedicated encoder towers, Gemma 4 12B Unified projects raw inputs directly into the language model's embedding space through lightweight linear pipelines. This results in a simpler architecture while maintaining strong multimodal performance.

Key differences from standard Gemma 4:

  • No Vision Tower: Raw pixel patches are projected directly into LM space via a Dense + LayerNorm pipeline with factorized 2D positional embeddings, replacing the vision encoder.
  • No Audio Tower: Raw 16 kHz waveform samples are chunked into fixed-length frames and projected through a simple RMSNorm → Linear pipeline, replacing the mel spectrogram + Conformer encoder.
  • Shared Multimodal Pipeline: Both vision and audio use the same Gemma4UnifiedMultimodalEmbedder (RMSNorm → Linear) for the final projection to text hidden space.

You can find the original Gemma 4 12B Unified checkpoints under the Gemma 4 release.

Sapiens2

Sapiens2 is a family of high-resolution vision transformers pretrained on ~1 billion curated human images, designed for human-centric computer vision tasks including pose estimation, body-part segmentation, surface normal estimation, and pointmap estimation. The models scale from 0.4B to 5B parameters and train at native 1K resolution, with hierarchical 4K variants for extended spatial reasoning. Sapiens2 achieves substantial improvements over its predecessor with +4 mAP in pose estimation, +24.3 mIoU in body-part segmentation, and 45.6% error reduction in normal estimation.

Links: Documentation | Paper

DeepSeek-OCR-2

DeepSeek-OCR-2 is an OCR-specialized vision-language model built on a distinctive architecture that combines a SAM ViT-B vision encoder with a Qwen2 hybrid attention encoder, connected through an MLP projector to a DeepSeek-V2 Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model. The model features a hybrid attention mechanism that applies bidirectional attention over image tokens and causal attention over query tokens, enabling efficient and accurate document understanding. It supports both plain OCR tasks and grounding capabilities with coordinate-aware output for document conversion to markdown format.

Links: Documentation

Mellum

Mellum is a code-focused Mixture-of-Experts language model developed by JetBrains. It is derived from the Qwen3-MoE architecture with per-layer-type RoPE and interleaved sliding window attention. The model has 12B total parameters with 2.5B active parameters per token, using 64 routed experts with 8 activated per token across 28 layers.

Links: Documentation

Breaking changes

The Gemma4 vision pooler now casts inputs to float32 before scaling to prevent float16 overflow (inf saturation) with large checkpoints, which may cause minor numerical differences in outputs for users running Gemma-4 vision models in float16.

Audio Language Models (ALMs) now have a dedicated base model class without a language modeling head, aligning them with the design of Vision Language Models (VLMs); users relying on the previous model class structure should update their code to use the new base model class where appropriate.

Parallelization

This release includes numerous bug fixes for model parallelism across multiple models (Gemma4, AltCLIP, ChineseClip, Blip-2, Whisper, Ovis2, Moshi) and parallel execution strategies, including fixes for tensor parallelism (TP), expert parallelism (EP), beam search under model parallel settings, and loss over-counting under TP/EP configurations. The continuous batching manager was also reworked for clearer control flow and improved TP race condition handling, and FSDP initialization via from_pretrained was introduced.

Cache

Fixed a regression in encoder-decoder cache initialization where the decoder config was incorrectly applied to the cross-attention cache, and resolved a RuntimeError caused by buffer size limits when warming up the cache on MPS devices. Additional test infrastructure improvements were made to support read-only cache environments used in CI.

Quantization

Added support for DeepGEMM BF16, mixed FP8/FP4, and MegaMoE quantization via a grouped linear refactor, while fixing two bugs: an FP8 MoE reverse substring issue affecting DSv4 initialization, and a BitsAndBytes 4-bit/8-bit quantization bug that silently dropped chunked tensors from one-to-many weight converters.

Bugfixes and improvements

Significant community contributions

The following contributors have made significant changes to the library over the last release:

  • @​filipinescu
    • [docs] Romanian translation of contributing.md, modular_transformers.md, multimodal_processing.md, add_vision_processing_components.md, add_audio_processing_components.md, modeling_rules.md, model_output_tracing.md, auto_docstring.md, testing.md, pr_checks.md and add_new_model.md . (#​46345)
    • [docs] Romanian translation of weightconverter.md, models.md, custom_models.md, monkey_patching.md, fusion_mapping.md, how_to_hack_models.md, model_sharing.md and serialization.md. (#​46309)
    • Romanian translation of README.md, index.md, installation.md, _config.py and quicktour.md. (#​46166)
  • @​remi-or
    • [CB] [Major] Rework manager to have clearer control flow + handle TP (#​46070)
  • @​thisisiron
  • @​kaixuanliu
    • Add Expectations for pipeline token classification tests (#​46151)
    • fix series of bugs for model parallel beam search (#​46280)
    • add more generic support for distributed trainer tests (#​46109)
    • add XPU Expectations for florence2 and lfm2_vl model test (#​46275)
    • Fix model parallel issue for altclip model and ChineseClip model (#​45487)
    • Model parallel fix (#​46230)
    • fix(hrm_text): Add XPU Expectations for tests (#​46214)
    • Fix model parallel bugs for Gemma4 (#​45817)
    • Fix bnb 4bit/8bit quantization drop chunked tensors bug (#​46210)
    • fix model parallel device mismatch issue in create_bidirectional_mask (#​46221)
    • Fix a regression in encoder-decoder generation cache initialization (#​46111)
  • @​shadeMe
    • feat: Add support for JetBrains' Mellum v2 code generation model (#​46112)
  • @​vasqu
    • [Revert] FSDP+Dtensor refactor related changes (#​46246)
    • [Configs] Fix layer type validation to include its mlp counterpart (#​46220)
  • @​zRzRzRzRzRzRzR
    • [GLM-4.6V] Update with GLM-GA Processor (#​46184)
  • @​eustlb
    • 🚨 [ALM] Add base model without head (#​45534)

v5.10.0

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v5.9.0

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Release v5.9.0

New Model additions

Cohere2Moe

Command A+ is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model from Cohere that features a hybrid attention pattern combining sliding window and full attention layers. The model incorporates both shared and routed experts and supports a very large context window for processing extensive text sequences.

Links: Documentation

Parakeet tdt (#​44171)
HRM-Text

HRM-Text is an improved autoregressive language-modeling variant of the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) that uses a hierarchical recurrent forward pass with two transformer stacks - one for slow, abstract planning (H) and one for fast, detailed computation (L) - reused inside a nested recurrence. It features PrefixLM attention where instruction tokens attend bidirectionally while response tokens attend causally, per-head sigmoid output gates, and parameterless RMSNorm. The model is designed as a base language model without instruction tuning or chat templates.

Links: Documentation | Paper

Breaking changes

The text_embeds input for SAM3, EdgeTAM, and SAM3-Lite-Text models now expects full text embeddings instead of just pooler outputs, aligning with other models in the library — users must update their inputs accordingly.

Audio

Audio support was expanded with the addition of AudioFlamingoNext model checkpoints and improved compilability of audio/vision encoders via standalone pure functions. Additional improvements include better error messaging when loading audio from video files and new documentation for audio/video processors.

Generation

Fixed generation issues including inputs_embeds and per_layer_inputs handling for Gemma4, an AttributeError in RAG's generate() caused by missing config fields, and flaky VLM generation tests by blocking special image tokens during sampling.

Bugfixes and improvements

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