GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-74m6-m3xx-3vmj Keras model loading is vulnerable to denial of service through HDF5 shape bombs
MEDIUM
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- 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.
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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
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12570 advisory
- https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/22975 web
- https://github.com/keras-team/keras/commit/4933ea4a5b3fcc24ceacdc276f5bb5dfbd06756c web
- https://github.com/keras-team/keras package
- https://github.com/keras-team/keras/releases/tag/v3.15.0 web
- https://huntr.com/bounties/a064f475-780a-409a-82f7-678512f27ad8 web