CVE-2026-54499
HIGHStanza: Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in Model Loaders
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
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https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/security/advisories/GHSA-v5jw-96jm-7h2c
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https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/pull/1587
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https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/commit/b745008c68c9e50ccb5acd537cb6f2453f8b7ad4
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https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/releases/tag/v1.12.2
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0032
EPSS Percentile
23.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-502
CWE-676
Status
published
Products (2)
stanford/stanza
< 1.12.2
stanfordnlp/stanza
< 1.12.2
Published
Jul 08, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 09, 2026