Path Traversal Vulnerability in deepset-ai Farm's Tokenizer Loader
CVE-2026-120334

5.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Deepset-ai

Status
Farm
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 November 2026

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

What is CVE-2026-120334?

A flaw in deepset-ai Farm, affecting versions up to 0.8.0, allows an attacker to exploit the EmbeddingTokenizer.from_pretrained method in the Tokenizer Loader component. By manipulating the vocab_filename argument, an attacker can execute a path traversal attack, which could lead to unauthorized file access on the server. This vulnerability can be remotely exploited and primarily impacts versions that are no longer supported by the vendor.

Affected Version(s)

farm 0.1

farm 0.2

farm 0.3

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2026-120334 - Proof of Concept

References

https://vuldb.com/vuln/429659
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https://vuldb.com/vuln/429659/cti
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https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-120334
third-party-advisory

CVSS V4

Score:
5.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Attack Required:
None
Privileges Required:
Undefined
User Interaction:
Unknown

Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dem0000000 (VulDB User)
VulDB CNA Team
.