SpeechBrain up to 1.1.0 Candidate Enumeration CKPT.yaml Checkpointer.recover_if_possible code injection

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in SpeechBrain up to 1.1.0. Affected is the function Checkpointer.recover_if_possible of the file CKPT.yaml of the component Candidate Enumeration. This manipulation causes code injection. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-10036. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in SpeechBrain up to 1.1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function Checkpointer.recover_if_possible of the file CKPT.yaml of the component Candidate Enumeration. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

SpeechBrain before 1.1.1 contains an arbitrary code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying a crafted CKPT.yaml checkpoint metadata file parsed with PyYAML's unsafe loader during candidate enumeration in Checkpointer.recover_if_possible(). Attackers can embed malicious Python object construction tags such as !!python/object/apply in any CKPT.yaml file within the configured checkpoint path to trigger code execution during candidate discovery, even if the malicious checkpoint is never selected for recovery.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-10036 since 05/28/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.1.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• SpeechBrain

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• 1.0
• 1.1.0

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• Product: https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/

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