---
id: CVE-2026-65179
title: >-
  NVIDIA NeMo contains a vulnerability in the TabularTokenizer class where it
  deserializes an untrusted, attacker-controlled .pkl file via pickle.load()
  without validation
summary: >-
  NVIDIA NeMo contains a vulnerability in the TabularTokenizer class where it
  deserializes an untrusted, attacker-controlled .pkl file via pickle.load()
  without validation. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to
  code execut…
severity: high
cvss: 8.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-502
vendor: nvidia
product: nemo_speech
affected:
  - nemo_speech < 3.0.0
patched:
  - nemo_speech 3.0.0
published: '2026-09-22'
updated: '2026-09-29'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-29T15:42:32.170'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-65179'
references:
  - url: 'https://github.com/NVIDIA/product-security/tree/main/2026/5885'
    label: psirt@nvidia.com
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-65179'
    label: psirt@nvidia.com
  - url: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-65179'
    label: psirt@nvidia.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00763
epssPercentile: 0.55183
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2026-09-22T15:28:59.793234Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-09-22T15:05:01.097Z'
---

## Overview

NVIDIA NeMo contains a vulnerability in the TabularTokenizer class where it deserializes an untrusted, attacker-controlled .pkl file via pickle.load() without validation. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.

## Affected

- `nemo_speech < 3.0.0`

## Remediation

Upgrade past the affected range:

- `nemo_speech 3.0.0`