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CVE-2026-69112: Hugging Face Accelerate 1.14.0 Path Traversal and DoS via weight_map

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-10 · updated 2026-10-24
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Hugging Face Accelerate through 1.14.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in load_checkpoint_in_model and load_checkpoint_and_dispatch functions that fail to sanitize weight_map entries from sharded checkpoint indexes. Attackers can supply relative paths with ../ sequences or absolute paths to read arbitrary files, or point shard entries at named pipes to cause indefinite blocking and denial of service.

Affected products

• huggingface accelerate: through 1.14.0

References

• https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/issues/4067
• https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/pull/4070
• https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/pull/4138
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hugging-face-accelerate-path-traversal-and-dos-via-weight-map

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