What is CVE-2026-71281?

CVE-2026-71281 is a high-severity vulnerability in Huggingface Peft, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2026-08-05.

How severe is CVE-2026-71281?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Deserialization in Huggingface Peft

CVE-2026-71281

Hugging Face peft's LoRA-GA and CorDA initialization modules (src/peft/tuners/lora/corda.py lines ~102 and ~163, and src/peft/tuners/lora/loraga.py line ~101) call torch.load() on config-specified cache/covariance files without weights_onl…

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Huggingface Peft — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-71281?: CVE-2026-71281 is a high-severity vulnerability in Huggingface Peft, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2026-08-05.
How severe is CVE-2026-71281?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.