CVE-2026-31226 | The TinyZero project thru commit 6652a63c57fa7e5ccde3fc9c598… | CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

Description

The TinyZero project thru commit 6652a63c57fa7e5ccde3fc9c598c7176ff15b839 (2025-58-24) contains a critical command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) in its HDFS file operation utilities. The vulnerability arises from the unsafe construction and execution of shell commands via os.system() without proper input sanitization or escaping. User-controlled input (such as file paths) is directly interpolated into shell command strings using f-strings within the _copy() function. An attacker can inject arbitrary OS commands by supplying a specially crafted path parameter through the Hydra configuration framework. This leads to remote code execution with the privileges of the user running the TinyZero training process.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2026-31226
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 2026-03-09 00:00 UTC
Published: 2026-05-12 00:00 UTC
Last updated: 2026-05-13 14:08 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-78
CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a…
Vendor / Product: n/a / n/a
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
n/a	n/a	—	n/a

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
—	cna	n/a
CWE-78	adp	CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
9.8	CRITICAL	3.1	adp	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)