Deserialization of untrusted data in NVIDIA NeMo Speech
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-502.
Summary
NVIDIA NeMo contains a vulnerability in the TabularTokenizer class where it deserializes an untrusted, attacker-controlled .pkl file via pickle.load() without validation. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-65179
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4v72-rpj8-4xq7
References
More NVIDIA Nemo Speech vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-19563 Deserialization of untrusted data in NVIDIA NeMo Speech CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2026-19540 Deserialization of untrusted data in NVIDIA NeMo Speech CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2026-46511 Deserialization of untrusted data in NVIDIA NeMo Speech CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2026-46496 Command injection in NVIDIA NeMo Speech CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-65179 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-65179 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4v72-rpj8-4xq7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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