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official CVE (VulnCheck CNA, Oct 30); fix PR still open, no patched release yet; no exploitation reported

LMDeploy 0.9.0 to 0.18.0: unauthenticated RCE (CVE-2026-119706, CVSS 9.8) through the api_server /update_weights endpoint, which unpickles request data; no fixed release yet

InternLM's LMDeploy LLM serving toolkit exposes an /update_weights endpoint on its OpenAI-compatible api_server. Per VulnCheck, a request can carry a base64-encoded pickle in serialized_named_tensors, which is deserialized with ForkingPickler.loads without validation, running commands as the server process with no authentication.

  • Affected: 0.9.0 through 0.18.0 (latest release, Sep 28).
  • Fix status: pull request 4964 ("Reject pickle on HTTP /update_weights") was still open when this was published; no patched release yet.
  • Exploitation: none reported.

Do now: never expose an LMDeploy api_server to untrusted networks; put it behind an authenticating proxy that blocks /update_weights, and watch for the fixed release.

Sources: VulnCheck: LMDeploy 0.9.0 through 0.18.0 unauthenticated RCE via /update_weights pickle deserialization · GitHub: InternLM/lmdeploy PR 4964, "Reject pickle on HTTP /update_weights" (open as of Oct 30) · NVD: CVE-2026-119706