Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere Affecting text-generation-inference package, versions <3.3.7-r21


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.94% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-TEXTGENERATIONINFERENCE-18391831
  • published29 Jul 2026
  • disclosed3 Jun 2026

Introduced: 3 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-5241  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-829  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard text-generation-inference to version 3.3.7-r21 or higher.

NVD Description

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

A vulnerability in the LightGlue model loading path of huggingface/transformers version 5.2.0 allows an attacker-controlled model repository to execute arbitrary code during model initialization. The issue arises because the trust_remote_code parameter, intended to prevent remote code execution, is overridden by untrusted serialized configuration data in a nested code path. Specifically, when loading a LightGlue model using AutoModel.from_pretrained() with trust_remote_code=False, the LightGlueConfig reads the trust_remote_code value from the untrusted config.json file and propagates it into nested AutoConfig.from_pretrained() calls. This results in the execution of attacker-provided Python modules, even when the victim explicitly disables remote code execution. The vulnerability poses a high risk for environments such as API inference servers, research notebooks, CI/CD pipelines, and model evaluation workers, potentially leading to credential theft, lateral movement, or persistence/backdoor deployment.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1