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Xinference through 2.11.0 Remote Code Execution via Hardcoded trust_remote_code in Model Loaders

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Xinference loads models with Hugging Face remote code execution unconditionally enabled, and before version 2.12.0 exposes no setting to disable it. Six loader call sites pass trust_remote_code=True as a literal or as an unconditional default: RerankModel._get_tokenizer in xinference/model/rerank/core.py, SentenceTransformerRerankModel.load in xinference/model/rerank/sentence_transformers/core.py, SentenceTransformerEmbeddingModel.load in xinference/model/embedding/sentence_transformers/core.py, FlagEmbeddingModel.load in xinference/model/embedding/flag/core.py, and two sites in xinference/model/llm/transformers/core.py where PytorchModel._sanitize_model_config and PytorchModel._get_components default the value to True. Because a caller with model launch access can register a model whose type is unknown and supply an arbitrary model path, the server reaches _auto_detect_type and then AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained, which imports and executes Python declared by the model directory's own tokenizer_config.json auto_map, running attacker-supplied code with the privileges of the worker process. Version 2.12.0 gates every site behind allow_trust_remote_code and the XINFERENCE_TRUST_REMOTE_CODE setting, permitting remote code only for bundled built-in models.

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CVE-2026-76841

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inference

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[
  {
    "vendor": "xorbitsai",
    "product": "inference",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "2.12.0",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "packageURL": "pkg:pypi/xinference",
    "packageName": "xinference",
    "collectionURL": "https://pypi.org/project/xinference/",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
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CVE-2026-76841

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