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CVE-2026-54499PYSEC-2026-3075GHSA-V5JW-96JM-7H2C

Stanza: Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in Model Loaders

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.12.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Stanza is a Stanford NLP Python library for tokenization, sentence segmentation, NER, and parsing of many human languages. Prior to 1.12.2, Stanza model loaders such as stanza.models.common.pretrain.Pretrain.load() attempt torch.load(..., weights_only=True) but fall back to torch.load(..., weights_only=False) on attacker-controllable pickle.UnpicklingError, allowing a malicious .pt pretrain or model file to execute arbitrary pickle code when a Stanza NLP pipeline loads it. This issue is fixed in version 1.12.2.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • stanfordnlp stanza

    fixed in 1.12.2

  • stanzaPyPI

    fixed in 1.12.2

References 4

GitHub · stanfordnlp/stanza