Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting megatron-core package, versions [,0.12.3)[0.13.0rc1, 0.13.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-MEGATRONCORE-13110024
  • published28 Sept 2025
  • disclosed24 Sept 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Sep 2025

NewCVE-2025-23348  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade megatron-core to version 0.12.3, 0.13.1 or higher.

Overview

megatron-core is a Megatron Core - a library for efficient and scalable training of transformer based models

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection in the pretrain_gpt script. An attacker can execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges, access sensitive information, and tamper with data by supplying malicious input data.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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