Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting smolagents package, versions [,1.17.0)
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- published27 Jul 2025
- disclosed27 Jul 2025
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Introduced: 27 Jul 2025
NewCVE-2025-5120 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade smolagents to version 1.17.0 or higher.
Overview
smolagents is a 🤗 smolagents: a barebones library for agents. Agents write python code to call tools or orchestrate other agents.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection via the evaluate_name function in the local_python_executor.py file. An attacker can execute arbitrary code on the host system by leveraging whitelisted modules and functions to bypass the restricted execution environment.