Path Traversal in Huggingface Accelerate
CVE-2026-69112
Hugging Face Accelerate through 1.14.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in load_checkpoint_in_model and load_checkpoint_and_dispatch functions that fail to sanitize weight_map entries from sharded checkpoint indexes. Attackers can supply relative paths with ../ sequences or absolute paths to read arbitrary files, or point shard entries at named pipes to cause indefinite blocking and denial of service.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.002 (7.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 7th percentile — 7.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.002 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- Huggingface Accelerate — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- github.com/huggingface/accelerate/issues/4067 (technical-description, exploit)
- github.com/huggingface/accelerate/pull/4070 (issue-tracking)
- github.com/huggingface/accelerate/pull/4138 (issue-tracking)
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hugging-face-accelerate-path-traversal-and-dos-via… (third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-69112?
- CVE-2026-69112 is a high-severity vulnerability in Huggingface Accelerate, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2026-08-10.
- How severe is CVE-2026-69112?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.