# CVE-2026-45804: Diffusers: TOCTOU Trust Remote Code Bypass

- Also known as: GHSA-7WX4-6VFF-V64P, PYSEC-2026-2446
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.38.0
- Published: 2026-07-15 · Updated: 2026-07-15

## Affected

- huggingface diffusers: fixed in 0.38.0
- diffusers (PyPI): fixed in 0.38.0

## Description

Diffusers is the a library for pretrained diffusion models. Prior to 0.38.0, Diffusers' DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained flow can bypass the trust_remote_code guard because download() validates model_index.json and custom pipeline code before later loading from a cached folder that can change, allowing a Hub repository with custom .py pipeline code to execute through the custom pipeline flow without passing custom_pipeline or trust_remote_code=True. This issue is fixed in version 0.38.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on huggingface diffusers, diffusers, upgrade to a fixed version (0.38.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/security/advisories/GHSA-7wx4-6vff-v64p
- https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/issues/13446
- https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/13448
- https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/commit/a37f6f8394ac2a7ee8360c3abea811efe54512b1
- https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/releases/tag/v0.38.0

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