CVE-2026-54499

HIGH

Stanza: Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in Model Loaders

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

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