What is CVE-2026-68770?

CVE-2026-68770 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Hugging Face Sentence-transformers, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-07-31.

How severe is CVE-2026-68770?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Hugging Face Sentence-transformers

CVE-2026-68770

sentence-transformers contains a security control bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by exploiting a logic flaw in the import_module_class helper within sentence_transformers/util/misc.py, where…

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Hugging Face Sentence-transformers — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

disclosure@vulncheck.com (product)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (patch)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (issue-tracking)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (vendor-advisory)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-68770?: CVE-2026-68770 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Hugging Face Sentence-transformers, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-07-31.
How severe is CVE-2026-68770?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.