CVE-2026-108947

5.3Medium

Published 13 Oct 2026 · NVD status: Deferred · AI triage by gemini-3.8-flash

5.3Medium

Attack vector: Local
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: Low
User interaction: None
Impact: Limited impact
Weakness: CWE-20, CWE-502

Impact

Local attackers can execute arbitrary code by supplying a malicious checkpoint file to be loaded. They require local access and the ability to pass untrusted input to the checkpoint loading path.

Root cause

The load_ckpt function in torchdistill/common/main_util.py unsafely deserializes checkpoint data passed via the src_ckpt argument.

Affected systems

torchdistill up to 1.1.5

CVSS v3.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Fix & remediation

No fixed version is available as the maintainer closed the issue without patching; restrict file permissions and avoid loading untrusted checkpoint files.

shell

$ pip show torchdistill

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NVD description

A flaw has been found in yoshitomo-matsubara torchdistill up to 1.1.5. This affects the function load_ckpt of the file torchdistill/common/main_util.py. Executing a manipulation of the argument src_ckpt can lead to deserialization. The attack needs to be launched locally. The exploit has been published and may be used. The project maintainer explains: "This is very similar to an internal report that GH auto-generated for the owner before, which I found tolerable for this project at that time. So I will close this as duplicate."

References

Source: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-108947