GHSA-75m9-98v2-hjpmHighCVSS 7.8

PyTorch Lightning load_from_checkpoint has an insecure checkpoint deserialization

Published
May 12, 2026
Last Modified
May 18, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

PyTorch-Lightning versions 2.6.0 and earlier contain an insecure deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) in the checkpoint loading mechanism. The LightningModule.load_from_checkpoint() method, which is commonly used to load saved model states, internally calls torch.load() without setting the security-restrictive weights_only=True parameter. This default behavior allows the deserialization of arbitrary Python objects via the Pickle module. A remote attacker can exploit this by providing a maliciously crafted checkpoint file, leading to arbitrary code execution on the victim's system when the file is loaded.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/pytorch-lightning:<= 2.6.0

🔗 References (4)