CVE-2026-54499 PUBLISHED

Stanza: Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in Model Loaders

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 15.06.2026 Published: 08.07.2026 Updated: 09.07.2026

Stanza is a Stanford NLP Python library for tokenization, sentence segmentation, NER, and parsing of many human languages. Prior to 1.12.2, Stanza model loaders such as stanza.models.common.pretrain.Pretrain.load() attempt torch.load(..., weights_only=True) but fall back to torch.load(..., weights_only=False) on attacker-controllable pickle.UnpicklingError, allowing a malicious .pt pretrain or model file to execute arbitrary pickle code when a Stanza NLP pipeline loads it. This issue is fixed in version 1.12.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor stanfordnlp
Product stanza
Versions
  • Version < 1.12.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data CWE
  • CWE-676: Use of Potentially Dangerous Function CWE