# CVE-2026-115921: ONNX: Null Pointer Dereference in ScanInferenceFunction Due to Missing Required Attribute

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-110046, GHSA-M4PR-6V3C-6FGR
- Severity: CVSS 6.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.22.0
- Published: 2026-10-26 · Updated: 2026-10-26

## Summary

The ONNX machine learning interoperability library (versions prior to the fix) is affected through its Scan operator shape inference code. A maliciously crafted model can crash or disrupt the software during shape inference, causing denial of service.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- onnx: from 1.4.0, fixed in 1.22.0
- onnx (PyPI): from 1.4.0, fixed in 1.22.0

## Description

Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) is an open standard for machine learning interoperability. From 1.4.0 until 1.22.0, ScanInferenceFunction, ScanInferenceFunction_opset8, and ScanInferenceFunction_opset9 do not safely validate the required num_scan_inputs attribute. A missing attribute is dereferenced as a null pointer, while a negative value is converted to size_t and can reach an exceptional oversized allocation path. An untrusted model can therefore terminate or disrupt shape inference, including a negative-value model that can pass onnx.checker.check_model(). This issue is fixed in version 1.22.0.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/security/advisories/GHSA-m4pr-6v3c-6fgr
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/pull/7916
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/commit/dd6bc92ea39fd2274fd671f0734b0b8b558356f5
- https://github.com/onnx/onnx/releases/tag/v1.22.0

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