CVE-2026-71281

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-05. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — Patch released this week
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.5%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Hugging Face peft's LoRA-GA and CorDA initialization modules (src/peft/tuners/lora/corda.py lines ~102 and ~163, and src/peft/tuners/lora/loraga.py line ~101) call torch.load on config-specified cache/covariance files without weights_only=True, bypassing peft's own safe-loading wrapper used elsewhere in the codebase.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100CISA SSVC

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
Severity88% × 45%
Exploitation1% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
40th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 5, 2026

Last Modified

August 26, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 5, 2026
Patch available.
generic

peft/src/peft/tuners/lora/corda.py at main · huggingface/peft · GitHub

https://github.com/huggingface/peft/blob/main/src/peft/tuners/lora/corda.py
generic

GitHub - huggingface/peft: 🤗 PEFT: State-of-the-art Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning. · GitHub

https://github.com/huggingface/peft

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhoai/odh-training-rocm64-torch29-py312-rhel9:17894927342026-09-30redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-training-rocm62-torch25-py311-rhel9:17881786372026-09-08redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 26× in last 7d / 122× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 241 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-04 23:34 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-04 23:34 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-04 23:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-10-04 06:02 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-04 06:02 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-04 06:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-10-03 01:09 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-03 01:09 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-03 01:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-10-02 09:58 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-02 09:58 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-02 09:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-10-01 14:53 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-01 14:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-01 02:19 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-01 02:19 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-01 02:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-09-29 06:18 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-29 06:18 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-29 06:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-09-28 06:17 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-09-28 06:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-09-27 17:43 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-27 17:43 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-09-27 17:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-09-25 04:32 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-25 04:32 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-09-25 04:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-24 05:44 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-24 05:44 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-09-24 05:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-09-23 16:15 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-09-23 16:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-23 03:41 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-23 03:41 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-09-23 03:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-22 15:07 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-09-22 15:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-22 01:33 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-22 01:33 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-22 01:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  27. 2026-09-20 20:48 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-09-20 20:48 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-09-20 20:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  31. 2026-09-19 23:16 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-09-19 23:16 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-09-19 23:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-09-19 07:44 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-09-19 07:44 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-09-19 07:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-09-18 17:43 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-09-18 17:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-09-18 04:31 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-09-18 04:31 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-09-18 04:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-09-17 15:57 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-09-17 15:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-09-17 01:07 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-09-17 01:07 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-09-17 01:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  48. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  49. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  50. 2026-09-16 05:14 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-09-16 05:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-09-15 16:23 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-15 16:23 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-15 16:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  56. 2026-09-15 01:47 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-15 01:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  58. 2026-09-14 13:13 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-09-14 13:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  60. 2026-09-14 00:38 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-09-14 00:38 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-09-14 00:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-09-13 12:04 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-13 12:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-09-12 23:30 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-09-12 23:30 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-09-12 23:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-09-12 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  69. 2026-09-12 10:06 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-09-12 10:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  71. 2026-09-11 21:31 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-09-11 21:31 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-09-11 21:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  75. 2026-09-11 08:57 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-71281?
CVE-2026-71281 is a high vulnerability published on August 5, 2026. Hugging Face peft's LoRA-GA and CorDA initialization modules (src/peft/tuners/lora/corda.py lines ~102 and ~163, and src/peft/tuners/lora/loraga.py line ~101) call torch.load on config-specified cache/covariance files without weights_only=True, bypassing peft's own safe-loading wrapper used…
When was CVE-2026-71281 disclosed?
CVE-2026-71281 was first published on August 5, 2026, with the most recent update on August 26, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-71281 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-71281 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (40th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-71281?
CVE-2026-71281 has a CVSS base score of 8.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-71281?
A fix for CVE-2026-71281 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-71281 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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