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Hugging Face Malware Hijacks GPUs via trust_remote_code

Hugging Face Malware Hijacks GPUs via trust_remote_code

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 8.5 BleepingComputer

A persistent cryptomining and backdoor campaign abused Hugging Face's trust_remote_code feature to execute malicious Python code on GPU inference servers, accumulating over 28,000 downloads of its flagship malicious model. The attacker demonstrated resilience by relaunching within days of takedown, introducing container escape capabilities in the second wave. This campaign highlights critical supply chain risks in the AI model ecosystem, particularly for organisations running self-hosted inference infrastructure.

CVE-2026-44827: Hugging Face Diffusers RCE Bypasses Trust Gate

CVE-2026-44827: Hugging Face Diffusers RCE Bypasses Trust Gate

ATLAS OWASP CRITICAL Active exploitation · Immediate action required ▲ 9.1 The Hacker News

Three high-severity vulnerabilities in Hugging Face's Diffusers library — collectively dubbed FaceHugger — allow crafted model repositories to execute arbitrary code even when the trust_remote_code safeguard is explicitly disabled. The flaws exploit a TOCTOU race condition in the library's two-phase model loading process, meaning the security gate only inspects the first HTTP request while a malicious payload can be injected via the second. With over 8.1 million downloads in July 2026 alone, the attack surface spans enterprise production pipelines, CI/CD systems, and container images globally.

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