CVE-2026-57516

Ray prior to 2.56.0 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in the WebDataset reader that allows attackers to achieve remote code execution by supplying a malicious tar archive to the read_webdataset() function. The _default_decoder() function in webdataset_datasource.py unconditionally calls pickle.loads() on tar entries with .pkl/.pickle extensions and torch.load() with weights_only=False on .pt/.pth entries, executing arbitrary code inside Ray remote workers on every worker that processes the malicious archive.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:anyscale:ray:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

14 Jul 2026, 22:17

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References () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/security/advisories/GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43 - Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory, Patch () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/security/advisories/GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43 - Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory

06 Jul 2026, 17:32

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References () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/63469 - () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/63469 - Issue Tracking, Patch
References () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/63470 - () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/63470 - Issue Tracking, Patch
References () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/releases/tag/ray-2.56.0 - () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/releases/tag/ray-2.56.0 - Product, Release Notes
References () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/security/advisories/GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43 - () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/security/advisories/GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43 - Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory, Patch
References () https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ray-unsafe-deserialization-rce-via-webdataset-reader - () https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ray-unsafe-deserialization-rce-via-webdataset-reader - Third Party Advisory
First Time Anyscale
Anyscale ray
CPE cpe:2.3:a:anyscale:ray:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

01 Jul 2026, 19:16

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/security/advisories/GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43 - () https://github.com/ray-project/ray/security/advisories/GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43 -

01 Jul 2026, 17:16

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-07-01 17:16

Updated : 2026-07-14 22:17


NVD link : CVE-2026-57516

Mitre link : CVE-2026-57516

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-57516


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Products Affected

anyscale

  • ray
CWE
CWE-502

Deserialization of Untrusted Data