CVE-2026-86169
Axolotl before 0.19.0 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the multipack patch path where trust_remote_code defaults to None instead of False, causing the security guard to be bypassed. Attackers can execute arbitrary Python code by crafting a malicious Hugging Face model repository selected as base_model, which is loaded with hardcoded trust_remote_code=True during AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained.
Weakness
Axolotl before 0.19.0 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the multipack patch path where trust_remote_code defaults to None instead of False, causing the security guard to be bypassed. Attackers can execute arbitrary Python code by crafting a malicious Hugging Face model repository selected as base_model, which is loaded with hardcoded trust_remote_code=True during AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained.
References
- https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl
- https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/blob/v0.18.0/src/axolotl/loaders/patch_manager.py#L794-L806
- https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/blob/v0.18.0/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/multipack.py#L86-L96
- https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/commit/b62d60b101eea7f32532ee3c0b17c2f2430a9262
- https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/pull/3858
- https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/releases/tag/v0.19.0
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