CVE-2026-76841CWE-94code-injection

CVE-2026-76841

High · published August 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
63.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Xinference loads models with Hugging Face remote code execution unconditionally enabled, and before version 2.12.0 exposes no setting to disable it. Six loader call sites pass trust_remote_code=True as a literal or as an unconditional default: RerankModel._get_tokenizer in xinference/model/rerank/core.py, SentenceTransformerRerankModel.load in xinference/model/rerank/sentence_transformers/core.py, SentenceTransformerEmbeddingModel.load in xinference/model/embedding/sentence_transformers/core.py, FlagEmbeddingModel.load in xinference/model/embedding/flag/core.py, and two sites in xinference/model/llm/transformers/core.py where PytorchModel._sanitize_model_config and PytorchModel._get_components default the value to True. Because a caller with model launch access can register a model whose type is unknown and supply an arbitrary model path, the server reaches _auto_detect_type and then AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained, which imports and executes Python declared by the model directory's own tokenizer_config.json auto_map, running attacker-supplied code with the privileges of the worker process. Version 2.12.0 gates every site behind allow_trust_remote_code and the XINFERENCE_TRUST_REMOTE_CODE setting, permitting remote code only for bundled built-in models.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.01029 · 63.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Published
2026-08-24T18:17Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 AUG 08:27Z
    EPSS moved — → 1%
    epss
  • 24 AUG 13:11Z
    Xinference through 2.11.0 Remote Code Execution via Hardcoded trust_remote_code in Model Loaders
    cvelistv5