CVE-2026-26210

Critical

Description

KTransformers through 0.5.3 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in the balance_serve backend mode where the scheduler RPC server binds a ZMQ ROUTER socket to all interfaces with no authentication and deserializes incoming messages using pickle.loads() without validation. Attackers can send a crafted pickle payload to the exposed ZMQ socket to execute arbitrary code on the server with the privileges of the ktransformers process.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductKvcache-ai Ktransformers
PublishedApr 23, 2026
First seenApr 23, 2026

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
kvcache-ai ktransformersv ≤ 0.5.3—

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