CVE-2026-12570 PUBLISHED

Denial of Service via HDF5 Shape Bomb in keras.models.load_model() in keras-team/keras

Assigner: @huntr_ai
Reserved: 18.06.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

A vulnerability in keras-team/keras versions <= 3.15.0 allows for a denial of service (DoS) attack when loading malicious .keras model files via the keras.models.load_model() function. The H5IOStore.getitem method in keras/src/saving/saving_lib.py does not validate the shape or size of datasets, leading to unbounded memory allocation. A specially crafted .keras file can exploit this flaw to trigger an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, causing the process to be terminated (exit code 137). This issue bypasses the fix for CVE-2026-0897, which only addressed a similar vulnerability in KerasFileEditor. The attack vector includes poisoned models from public repositories or malicious model registries, posing a risk to machine learning pipelines that process untrusted models.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 5.5

Product Status

Vendor keras-team
Product keras-team/keras
Versions
  • affected from unspecified to 3.12.3, 3.15.0 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE