Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting nemo package, versions <2.7.3-r2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.85% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-NEMO-16688373
  • published14 May 2026
  • disclosed14 May 2026

Introduced: 14 May 2026

CVE-2026-44513  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard nemo to version 2.7.3-r2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nemo package and not the nemo package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

Diffusers is the a library for pretrained diffusion models. Prior to 0.38.0, a trust_remote_code bypass in DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained allows arbitrary remote code execution despite the user passing trust_remote_code=False (or omitting it, which is the default). The vulnerability has three variants, all sharing the same root cause — the trust_remote_code gate was implemented inside DiffusionPipeline.download() rather than at the actual dynamic-module load site, so any code path that bypassed or short-circuited download() also bypassed the security check. DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained('repoA', custom_pipeline='attacker/repoB', trust_remote_code=False) — the gate evaluated against repoA's file list rather than repoB's, so repoB's pipeline.py was loaded and executed. DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained('/local/snapshot', custom_pipeline='attacker/repoB', trust_remote_code=False) — the local-path branch never invoked download(), so the gate was never reached and remote code from repoB executed. DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained('/local/snapshot', trust_remote_code=False) where the snapshot contains custom component files (e.g. unet/my_unet_model.py) referenced from model_index.json — same root cause; the local path skipped download() and custom component code executed. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.38.0.