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.
Published: 2026-07-08
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-v5jw-96jm-7h2c Stanza: Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in Model Loaders
History

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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.
Title Stanza: Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in Model Loaders
Weaknesses CWE-502
CWE-676
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-09T13:13:28.368Z

Reserved: 2026-06-15T18:01:15.511Z

Link: CVE-2026-54499

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Updated: 2026-07-09T13:13:04.169Z

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No data.

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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-07-08T22:23:02Z

Links: CVE-2026-54499 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2026-07-09T23:30:16Z

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