GHSA-26c4-7vv6-867jMediumCVSS 5.5

Keras: HDF5 virtual datasets can disclose local files

Published
July 1, 2026
Last Modified
August 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Keras versions up to and including 3.13.2 are vulnerable to an arbitrary HDF5 file read due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-1669. The vulnerability resides in the H5IOStore._verify_dataset() and file_editor.py methods, which fail to check the dataset.is_virtual property of HDF5 datasets. This allows an attacker to craft a malicious .keras model archive or .h5 weights file containing a Virtual Dataset (VDS) that references external HDF5 files on the victim's filesystem. When the victim loads the model using keras.models.load_model() or keras.saving.load_model(), the external file is transparently read, leading to potential information disclosure. Fixed in versions 3.12.3 and 3.15.0.

🎯 Affected products2

  • pip/keras:< 3.12.3
  • pip/keras:>= 3.13.0, < 3.15.0

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