Security Bulletin
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been addressed in IBM Watson Studio in Cloud Pak for Data version 5.2.2
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2024-3568
DESCRIPTION: The huggingface/transformers library is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution through deserialization of untrusted data within the `load_repo_checkpoint()` function of the `TFPreTrainedModel()` class. Attackers can execute arbitrary code and commands by crafting a malicious serialized payload, exploiting the use of `pickle.load()` on data from potentially untrusted sources. This vulnerability allows for remote code execution (RCE) by deceiving victims into loading a seemingly harmless checkpoint during a normal training process, thereby enabling attackers to execute arbitrary code on the targeted machine.
CWE: CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 9.6
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-1550
DESCRIPTION: The Keras Model.load_model function permits arbitrary code execution, even with safe_mode=True, through a manually constructed, malicious .keras archive. By altering the config.json file within the archive, an attacker can specify arbitrary Python modules and functions, along with their arguments, to be loaded and executed during model loading.
CWE: CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-8747
DESCRIPTION: A safe mode bypass vulnerability in the `Model.load_model` method in Keras versions 3.0.0 through 3.10.0 allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution by convincing a user to load a specially crafted `.keras` model archive.
CWE: CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-43598
DESCRIPTION: LightGBM Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CWE: CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data | 4.0.0 through 4.8.9 and 5.0.0 through 5.2.1 releases |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) | Remediation/Fix |
| Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data | 4.0.0 through 4.8.9 and 5.0.0 through 5.2.1 releases | IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data 5.2.2 details here . |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
05 Dec 2025: Initial Publication
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Document Information
Modified date:
05 December 2025
Initial Publish date:
05 December 2025
UID
ibm17253888