CVE-2026-69112 Hugging Face Accelerate 1.14.0 Path Traversal and DoS via weight_map
Attackers can read arbitrary files or cause denial of service via malicious weight_map entries in Hugging Face Accelerate checkpoints.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-69112?
CVE-2026-69112 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in huggingface accelerate, published on 10 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Hugging Face Accelerate through 1.14.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in load_checkpoint_in_model and load_checkpoint_and_dispatch functions that fail to sanitize weight_map entries from sharded checkpoint indexes. Attackers can supply relative paths with ../ sequences or absolute paths to read arbitrary files, or point shard entries at named pipes to cause indefinite blocking and denial of service.
Weakness: CWE-22
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-69112?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including accelerate.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
accelerate PyPI | All versions to 1.14.0 | None |
accelerate PyPI | All versions to 1.14.0 | None |
accelerate PyPI | All versions to 1.14.0 | None |
How do I fix CVE-2026-69112?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2026-69112 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-69112 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4j2p-28q2-5m79, MINI-268g-vppr-jx4p, MINI-h5xm-qf2v-w5vr, MINI-xqf7-rx84-57rr, PYSEC-2026-3804.