The Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) thru 1.20.1 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) in its Kubeflow component's model loading functionality. When loading model weights from a file (e.g., model.pt) during robustness evaluation, the code uses torch.load() without the security-restrictive weights_only=True parameter. This allows the deserialization of arbitrary Python objects via the Pickle module. An attacker can exploit this by uploading a maliciously crafted model file to an object storage location referenced by the pipeline, or by controlling the model_id parameter to point to such a file. When the pipeline loads the model, the malicious payload is executed, leading to remote code execution.
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Tue, 12 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000
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| Title | Insecure Deserialization in ART Kubeflow Component Enables Remote Code Execution | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-502 |
Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000
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| Description | The Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) thru 1.20.1 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) in its Kubeflow component's model loading functionality. When loading model weights from a file (e.g., model.pt) during robustness evaluation, the code uses torch.load() without the security-restrictive weights_only=True parameter. This allows the deserialization of arbitrary Python objects via the Pickle module. An attacker can exploit this by uploading a maliciously crafted model file to an object storage location referenced by the pipeline, or by controlling the model_id parameter to point to such a file. When the pipeline loads the model, the malicious payload is executed, leading to remote code execution. | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-12T17:05:49.367Z
Reserved: 2026-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2026-31229
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-12T18:16:51.160
Modified: 2026-05-12T18:16:51.160
Link: CVE-2026-31229
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-05-12T18:45:05Z