Advisory Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Hugging Face Accelerate. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of checkpoints. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in deserialization of untrusted data. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process.

09/03/25 - ZDI submitted the report to a third-party bug bounty program
09/11/25 – the report was rejected for being out of scope for the bug bounty program
09/11/25 - ZDI confirmed not accepting any rewards or bounties and asked for the fix date
09/12/25 – ZDI reached out to the vendor’s security team via email
10/14/25 – the vendor confirmed that no changes will be made and closed the report as informative
12/12/25 – ZDI notified the vendor of the intention to publish the case as a 0-day advisory on 12/18/25

-- Mitigation: Given the nature of the vulnerability, the only salient mitigation strategy is to restrict interaction with the product

• 2025-09-03 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
• 2025-12-18 - Coordinated public release of advisory
• 2025-12-18 - Advisory Updated