Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere Affecting instructlab package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-INSTRUCTLAB-16323407
  • published30 Apr 2026
  • disclosed22 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-6859  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-829  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for instructlab.

Overview

instructlab is a Core package for interacting with InstructLab

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere via default trust_remote_code=True for loading models from HuggingFacein in linux_train.py file. An attacker can execute arbitrary Python code by convincing a user to run the training, downloading, or generating commands with a malicious model from a remote source.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1