Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-54499
Stanza is a Stanford NLP Python library for tokenization, sentence segmentation, NER, and parsing of many human languages. Prior to 1.12.2, Stanza model loaders such as stanza.models.common.pretrain.Pretrain.load() attempt torch.load(..., weights_only=True) but fall back to torch.load(..., weights_only=False) on attacker-controllable pickle.UnpicklingError, allowing a malicious .pt pretrain or model file to execute arbitrary pickle code when a Stanza NLP pipeline loads it. This issue is fixed in version 1.12.2.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 22.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-54499
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:0.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:0.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:0.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.10.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.11.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.12.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.12.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:stanford:stanza:1.9.2