CVE-2024-3568

CRITICAL

huggingface/transformers - Code Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2024-3568. PoCs published by rooobeam.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains a functional exploit for CVE-2024-3568, a pickle deserialization vulnerability in Hugging Face Transformers (≤ v4.37.2). The exploit leverages malicious checkpoint files to achieve RCE via `pickle.load()` in the `TFAutoModel.load_repo_checkpoint()` method.

Description

The huggingface/transformers library is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution through deserialization of untrusted data within the `load_repo_checkpoint()` function of the `TFPreTrainedModel()` class. Attackers can execute arbitrary code and commands by crafting a malicious serialized payload, exploiting the use of `pickle.load()` on data from potentially untrusted sources. This vulnerability allows for remote code execution (RCE) by deceiving victims into loading a seemingly harmless checkpoint during a normal training process, thereby enabling attackers to execute arbitrary code on the targeted machine.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WORKING POC
by rooobeam · poc
https://github.com/rooobeam/Pickle-Deserialization-Exploit-in-Transformers

This repository contains a functional exploit for CVE-2024-3568, a pickle deserialization vulnerability in Hugging Face Transformers (≤ v4.37.2). The exploit leverages malicious checkpoint files to achieve RCE via `pickle.load()` in the `TFAutoModel.load_repo_checkpoint()` method.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Rce
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Hugging Face Transformers ≤ v4.37.2
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Transformers library ≤ v4.37.2 · TensorFlow installed · Access to load a malicious checkpoint
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

Scores

CVSS v3 9.6
EPSS 0.0207
EPSS Percentile 78.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-502
Status published
Products (2)
huggingface/transformers < 4.38.0
pypi/transformers 0 - 4.38.0PyPI
Published Apr 10, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026