CVE-2026-86169
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.9%
59.2th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-829
Published 2026-09-05 · modified 2026-09-23
Description
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
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/axolotl-through-0.18.0-remote-code-execution-via-multipack-patching