High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published Aug 10, 2026· Updated Sep 16, 2026
CVE-2026-69112
CVE-2026-69112
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.
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Affected packages
Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
acceleratePyPI | <= 1.14.0 | — |
Affected products
1- Range: <=1.14.0
Patches
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References
6- github.com/advisories/GHSA-4j2p-28q2-5m79ghsaADVISORY
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-69112ghsaADVISORY
- github.com/huggingface/accelerate/issues/4067nvdWEB
- github.com/huggingface/accelerate/pull/4070nvdWEB
- github.com/huggingface/accelerate/pull/4138nvdWEB
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hugging-face-accelerate-path-traversal-and-dos-via-weight-mapnvdWEB
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