CVE-2026-26210

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-04-24. a secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Elevated
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Elevated riskExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

KTransformers through 0.5.3 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in the balance_serve backend mode where the scheduler RPC server binds a ZMQ ROUTER socket to all interfaces with no authentication and deserializes incoming messages using pickle.loads() without validation. Attackers can send a crafted pickle payload to the exposed ZMQ socket to execute arbitrary code on the server with the privileges of the ktransformers process.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8(medium)
EG Risk
75(Attend)
EG Risk 75/100SSVC: Attend

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity98% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk.
EPSS PROB
1%
EPSS %ILE
51%
KEV
Not listed

Published

April 23, 2026

Last Modified

July 14, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Sep 12, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. No patch confirmed yet. Sources: github_pr.
generic

KTransformers Unsafe Deserialization RCE via balance_serve | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ktransformers-unsafe-deserialization-rce-via-balance-serve
github_pr

Fix unsafe pickle deserialization in gRPC PolicyServer (CVE-2026-26210)

Upstream fix in progress (PR #1944 · kvcache-ai/ktransformers, state=closed)

https://github.com/kvcache-ai/ktransformers/pull/1944
generic🟡 PoC Available

CVE-2026-26210: ktransformers Unauthenticated RCE via Pickle Deserialization in ZMQ Scheduler - Chocapikk's Cybersecurity Blog

https://chocapikk.com/posts/2026/ktransformers-pickle-rce/

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 5× in last 7d / 29× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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  1. 2026-08-17 14:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-26210?
CVE-2026-26210 is a critical vulnerability published on April 23, 2026. KTransformers through 0.5.3 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in the balance_serve backend mode where the scheduler RPC server binds a ZMQ ROUTER socket to all interfaces with no authentication and deserializes incoming messages using pickle.loads() without validation. Attackers can…
When was CVE-2026-26210 disclosed?
CVE-2026-26210 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on April 23, 2026, with the most recent update on July 14, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-26210 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-26210 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 48.7% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-26210?
CVE-2026-26210 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-26210?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-26210, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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