Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.1
EPSS
0.46%
Path Traversal
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

A vulnerability in huggingface/transformers versions <=5.8.0.dev0 allows an attacker to perform arbitrary file writes via path traversal. The issue resides in the savepretrained() methods of PreTrainedTokenizerBase and ProcessorMixin, where keys from the chattemplate dictionary are used directly as filenames without proper validation. An attacker can exploit this by publishing a malicious Hugging Face Hub repository with a crafted tokenizerconfig.json file. When a victim downloads and saves the tokenizer or processor, the attacker-controlled keys can escape the intended save directory, enabling arbitrary file writes with attacker-controlled content. This vulnerability affects multiple processors inheriting from ProcessorMixin, including Idefics, Florence, Gemma, Phi, and Qwen-VL.

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Source: MITRE
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