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TI-2025-33006 Aliases CVE-2025-53002GHSA-xj56-p8mm-qmxj

LLaMA-Factory Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability

Priority HIGH 75CWE-502Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-502.

Summary

LLaMA-Factory is a tuning library for large language models. A remote code execution vulnerability was discovered in LLaMA-Factory versions up to and including 0.9.3 during the LLaMA-Factory training process. This vulnerability arises because the `vhead_file` is loaded without proper safeguards, allowing malicious attackers to execute arbitrary malicious code on the host system simply by passing a malicious `Checkpoint path` parameter through the `WebUI` interface. The attack is stealthy, as the victim remains unaware of the exploitation. The root cause is that the `vhead_file` argument is loaded without the secure parameter `weights_only=True`. Version 0.9.4 contains a fix for the issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0127 69th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 2 exploit referencesTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed LLaMA-Factory (hiyouga): 0.9.4

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
hiyougaLLaMA-Factorybefore 0.9.40.9.4Patch availableCNA
—llamafactory (PyPI)up to 0.9.3—No fix listedGHSA-xj56-p8mm-qmxj
  • LLaMA-Factory Vendorhiyouga Affected before 0.9.4 Fixed in 0.9.4 Patch available CNA
  • llamafactory (PyPI) Vendor— Affected up to 0.9.3 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-xj56-p8mm-qmxj

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:hiyouga:llama-factory:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 0.9.4Vulnerablehiyouga
  • cpe:2.3:a:hiyouga:llama-factory:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 0.9.4 Vulnerable ·hiyouga

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA LLaMA-Factory (hiyouga) Fixed in 0.9.4

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-53002
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xj56-p8mm-qmxj

References

Exploit 2

Patch 1

Advisory 1

Other 1

  • TI-2026-41855 LLaMA-Factory 0.9.5 Remote Code Execution via WebUI Model Path CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2024-35316 LLama Factory Remote OS Command Injection Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2025-38177 LLaMA Factory's Chat API has Critical SSRF and LFI Vulnerabilities CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2025-29280 LLaMA-Factory Allows Arbitrary Code Execution via Unsafe Deserialization in Ilamafy_baichuan2.py CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8

Sources

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