CVE-2026-54499

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

Published Jul 8, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-v5jw-96jm-7h2c Stanza: Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in Model Loaders
History
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First Time appeared Stanfordnlp
Stanfordnlp stanza
Vendors & Products Stanfordnlp
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Description 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.
Title Stanza: Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in Model Loaders
Weaknesses CWE-502
CWE-676
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jul 9, 2026, 1:13 PM
Reserved
Jun 15, 2026, 6:01 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Jul 8, 2026, 11:16 PM
Modified
Oct 25, 2026, 5:10 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Jul 8, 2026, 10:23 PM