Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting sentence-transformers package, versions [,5.6.0)
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- published2 Aug 2026
- disclosed31 Jul 2026
- creditBofei Chen
Introduced: 31 Jul 2026
NewCVE-2026-68770 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade sentence-transformers to version 5.6.0 or higher.
Overview
sentence-transformers is a State-of-the-Art Text Embeddings
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection through the import_module_class function in sentence_transformers/util/misc.py due to a logic flaw that allows the security guard to be bypassed if a local path exists. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by placing malicious Python files in a model directory and influencing the loading process, even when the security flag is set to prevent such execution.