Directory Traversal Affecting text-generation-inference package, versions <3.3.7-r24
Threat Intelligence
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- published8 Sept 2026
- disclosed2 Aug 2026
Introduced: 2 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-9856 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Chainguard text-generation-inference to version 3.3.7-r24 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 huggingface/transformers versions <=5.8.0.dev0 allows an attacker to perform arbitrary file writes via path traversal. The issue resides in the save_pretrained() methods of PreTrainedTokenizerBase and ProcessorMixin, where keys from the chat_template 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 tokenizer_config.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.