# CVE-2025-62609: MLX has Wild Pointer Dereference in load\_gguf()

- Also known as: PYSEC-2025-139, GHSA-J842-XGM4-WF88
- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.29.4
- Published: 2025-11-21 · Updated: 2025-11-21

## Affected

- ml-explore mlx: fixed in 0.29.4
- mlx (PyPI): fixed in 0.29.4

## Description

MLX is an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon. Prior to version 0.29.4, there is a segmentation fault in mlx::core::load_gguf() when loading malicious GGUF files. Untrusted pointer from external gguflib library is dereferenced without validation, causing application crash. This issue has been patched in version 0.29.4.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ml-explore mlx, mlx, upgrade to a fixed version (0.29.4) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/security/advisories/GHSA-j842-xgm4-wf88

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