CVE-2026-86169 PUBLISHED

Axolotl through 0.18.0 Remote Code Execution via Multipack Patching

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 05.09.2026 Published: 05.09.2026 Updated: 05.09.2026

Axolotl through 0.18.0 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the multipack patch path where trust_remote_code defaults to None instead of False, causing the security guard to be bypassed. Attackers can execute arbitrary Python code by crafting a malicious Hugging Face model repository selected as base_model, which is loaded with hardcoded trust_remote_code=True during AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor axolotl-ai-cloud
Product axolotl
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.18.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Gregory Tan reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere CWE