CVE-2026-57516 — Ray < 2.56.0 Unsafe Deserialization RCE via WebDataset Reader
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…
Published: 2026-07-01 · CVSS: 8.6 · CVSS 4.0
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7