guardrails-ai guardrails 0.10.1 malicious code

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in guardrails-ai guardrails 0.10.1. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes malicious code. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-45758. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in guardrails-ai guardrails 0.10.1. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a malicious code vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-506. The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Guardrails AI is a Python framework that helps build AI applications. On May 11, 2026 at approximately 6:00 PM Pacific, an attacker published a malicious version of `guardrails-ai` (0.10.1) to PyPI. Aany user who installed `guardrails-ai==0.10.1` from PyPI on May 11, 2026 may be affected. Security researchers identified the malicious package within approximately 2 hours of publication, and PyPI quarantined the repository. Based on our telemetry, Guardrails AI maintainers have observed no requests to Guardrails AI infrastructure originating from the malicious 0.10.1 version, and a review of system and access logs has produced no evidence of user data exfiltration through their systems. Users should upgrade to version 0.10.2 or downgrade to version 0.10.0, both of which are unaffected. Those who installed version 0.10.1 should rotate any credentials accessible from their machine (GitHub PATs, cloud provider keys, package registry tokens, API keys) and audit their GitHub account for unauthorized workflows or repositories.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-45758 since 05/13/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

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• Artificial Intelligence Software

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• guardrails-ai

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• guardrails

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• 0.10.1

Website

• Product: https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrails/

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