CVE catalog
CVE-2025-9905
UBUNTU-CVE-2025-9905
- Severity
- High · CVSS 8.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.22% · Oct 25, 2026
The Keras Model.load_model method can be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution, even with safe_mode=True. One can create a specially crafted .h5/.hdf5 model archive that, when loaded via Model.load_model, will trigger arbitrary code to be executed. This is achieved by crafting a special .h5 archive file that uses the Lambda layer feature of keras which allows arbitrary Python code in the form of pickled code. The vulnerability comes from the fact that the safe_mode=True option is not honored when reading .h5 archives. Note that the .h5/.hdf5 format is a legacy format supported by Keras 3 for backwards compatibility.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | keras | 11 | 2.3.1+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| Debian | keras | 11 | 2.3.1+dfsg2-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | keras | 18.04 | 1.0.7-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | keras | 18.04 | 2.1.1-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | keras | 20.04 | 2.2.4-1 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
OpenFactory catalog packages
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