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FaceHugger: Hugging Face Diffusers Flaws Open Door to AI Supply Chain Attacks

Zafran Labs disclosed a set of high-severity vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-44827 CVSS 8.8, CVE-2026-45804 CVSS 7.5, and CVE-2026-44513 CVSS 8.8) in Hugging Face's widely used diffusers library that let a malicious model repository silently execute arbitrary code on any client that loads it. The root cause is a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) flaw: a model download is split into two non-atomic HTTP requests, and the trust_remote_code safeguard is only enforced against the first, allowing the check to be bypassed. The write-up ties the flaw to a July 2026 Hugging Face intrusion in which a malicious dataset abused dataset-processing code-execution paths.

supply-chain · code-injection · arbitrary-code-execution · toctou · model-loading-abuse
hugging-face · diffusers · ai-supply-chain · llm · ml-models

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