The Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) thru 1.20.1 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) in its Kubeflow component's model loading functionality. When loading model weights from a file (e.g., model.pt) during robustness evaluation, the code uses torch.load() without the security-restrictive weights_only=True parameter. This allows the deserialization of arbitrary Python objects via the Pickle module. An attacker can exploit this by uploading a maliciously crafted model file to an object storage location referenced by the pipeline, or by controlling the model_id parameter to point to such a file. When the pipeline loads the model, the malicious payload is executed, leading to remote code execution.

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Wed, 13 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000

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Title Insecure Deserialization in ART Kubeflow Component Enables Remote Code Execution
Weaknesses CWE-502

Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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Description The Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) thru 1.20.1 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) in its Kubeflow component's model loading functionality. When loading model weights from a file (e.g., model.pt) during robustness evaluation, the code uses torch.load() without the security-restrictive weights_only=True parameter. This allows the deserialization of arbitrary Python objects via the Pickle module. An attacker can exploit this by uploading a maliciously crafted model file to an object storage location referenced by the pipeline, or by controlling the model_id parameter to point to such a file. When the pipeline loads the model, the malicious payload is executed, leading to remote code execution.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2026-05-12T17:05:49.367Z

Reserved: 2026-03-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2026-31229

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-12T18:16:51.160

Modified: 2026-05-12T18:16:51.160

Link: CVE-2026-31229

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Updated: 2026-05-13T10:51:35Z

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