Advisory record · GHSA-36p7-vc44-83pf

ChromaDB has a code injection vulnerability

CVSS 9.4 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0043 · 38th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.4: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 12 Jun 2026, 18:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
chromadbPyPI>=0.4.17, <=1.5.9No fixed version yet
Identifiers
GHSA-36p7-vc44-83pf · CVE-2026-45833 · PYSEC-2026-3814
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-94
Published
12 Jun 2026
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

ChromaDB (chromadb) versions 0.4.17 through 1.5.9 are affected. An authenticated attacker with the UPDATE_COLLECTION permission can send a malicious model repository with trust_remote_code set to true to a collection update endpoint, which allows arbitrary code execution on the server. No fixed version is listed.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.4 Critical 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H CNA (HiddenLayer)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0043, the 38th percentile, on 15 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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