Vulnerability record · CVE-2026-54499 · published 8 July 2026
CVE-2026-54499: Stanford stanza deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability
Stanford · Stanza
Stanza is a Stanford NLP Python library for tokenization, sentence segmentation, NER, and parsing of many human languages. Prior to 1.12.2, Stanza model loaders such as stanza.models.common.pretrain.Pretrain.load() attempt torch.load(..., weights_only=True) but fall back to torch.load(..., weights_only=False) on attacker-controllable pickle.UnpicklingError, allowing a malicious .pt pretrain or model file to execute arbitrary pickle code when a Stanza NLP pipeline loads it. This issue is fixed in version 1.12.2.
Description
Stanza is a Stanford NLP Python library for tokenization, sentence segmentation, NER, and parsing of many human languages. Prior to 1.12.2, Stanza model loaders such as stanza.models.common.pretrain.Pretrain.load() attempt torch.load(..., weights_only=True) but fall back to torch.load(..., weights_only=False) on attacker-controllable pickle.UnpicklingError, allowing a malicious .pt pretrain or model file to execute arbitrary pickle code when a Stanza NLP pipeline loads it. This issue is fixed in version 1.12.2.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.
References
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/commit/b745008c68c9e50ccb5acd537cb6f2453f8b7ad4 | Patch |
| https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/pull/1587 | Issue TrackingPatch |
| https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/releases/tag/v1.12.2 | Release Notes |
| https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/security/advisories/GHSA-v5jw-96jm-7h2c | ExploitVendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/security/advisories/GHSA-v5jw-96jm-7h2c | ExploitVendor Advisory |
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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2026-54499), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.