GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-74m6-m3xx-3vmj Keras model loading is vulnerable to denial of service through HDF5 shape bombs

MEDIUM Published 2026-08-10 Modified 2026-09-01 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-12570
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
keras
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2026-09-01

Affected packages

• PyPI keras: < 3.15.0 → fixed in 3.15.0

Description

A vulnerability in keras-team/keras versions < 3.15.0 allows for a denial of service (DoS) attack when loading malicious .keras model files via the keras.models.load_model() function. The H5IOStore.__getitem__ method in keras/src/saving/saving_lib.py does not validate the shape or size of datasets, leading to unbounded memory allocation. A specially crafted .keras file can exploit this flaw to trigger an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, causing the process to be terminated (exit code 137). This issue bypasses the fix for CVE-2026-0897, which only addressed a similar vulnerability in KerasFileEditor. The attack vector includes poisoned models from public repositories or malicious model registries, posing a risk to machine learning pipelines that process untrusted models.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-12570 A vulnerability in keras-team/keras versions <= 3.15.0 allows for a denial of service (DoS) attack when loading malicious .keras model… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References