CVE-2026-69112
Hugging Face Accelerate 1.14.0 Path Traversal and DoS via weight_map
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th
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.
| CWE | CWE-22 |
| Vendor | huggingface |
| Product | accelerate |
| Published | Aug 10, 2026 |
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CVSS v3 Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Affected Versions
huggingface / accelerate
0 ≤ 1.14.0
References
github.com: https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/issues/4067 github.com: https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/pull/4070 github.com: https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/pull/4138 vulncheck.com: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hugging-face-accelerate-path-traversal-and-dos-via-weight-map
Credits
George Chen