SB2026110237 - IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge update for Hugging Face Transformers
Published: November 2, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-75104)
CWE-ID: CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a local user to read arbitrary files outside the model directory.
The vulnerability exists due to Hugging Face Transformers fails to validate shard filenames in checkpoint index files. A local user can supply malicious index files with parent-directory references or absolute paths that are joined without validation, enabling file disclosure and filesystem reconnaissance.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.