CVE-2026-7482

Published May 4, 2026

Last updated 2 months ago

CVSS high 8.8

Overview

Description
Ollama before 0.17.1 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the GGUF model loader. The /api/create endpoint accepts an attacker-supplied GGUF file in which the declared tensor offset and size exceed the file's actual length; during quantization in fs/ggml/gguf.go and server/quantization.go (WriteTo()), the server reads past the allocated heap buffer. The leaked memory contents may include environment variables, API keys, system prompts, and concurrent users' conversation data, and can be exfiltrated by uploading the resulting model artifact through the /api/push endpoint to an attacker-controlled registry. The /api/create and /api/push endpoints have no authentication in the upstream distribution. Default deployments bind to 127.0.0.1, but the documented OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0 configuration is widely used in practice (large public-internet exposure observed).
Source
abd028dc-c042-4c4d-9749-38d0f850af89
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
ollama

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
8.8
Impact score
-
Exploitability score
-
Vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:A/V:D/RE:L/U:Red
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
9.1
Impact score
5.2
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Severity
CRITICAL

Weaknesses

abd028dc-c042-4c4d-9749-38d0f850af89
CWE-125

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

  1. CVE-2026-7482 · 9.1 → 0.17.1 Bleeding Llama: CVE-2026-7482 Turns Ollama Into a Memory Dump for 300K Servers

    @lyrie_ai

    19 Jun 2026

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  2. 11 million · CVE-2026-7482 · >=1.80.0 → 9.3 The AI model stack has become a first-class attack surface in 2026. Three incidents from the past week alone — an unauthenticated memory-leak CVE in 300,000+ Ollama deployments, a backdoored PyTorch Lightning package wit

    @lyrie_ai

    4 Jun 2026

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  3. How deep is the crisis in CVE resolution? you can learn about it from our story about CVE-2026-7482 - Ollama, a thread 🧵

    @Follow_our_Echo

    24 May 2026

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  4. CVE-2026-7482「Bleeding Llama」 https://t.co/nhpmQGYdlL

    @minotaursmx

    24 May 2026

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  5. CRITICAL: CVE-2026-7482 (CVSS 9.1) — multiple products. CVE: CVE-2026-7482 CVSS: 9.1 (3.1) — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H Severity: CRITICAL Status: Critical advisory

    @lyrie_ai

    15 May 2026

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Configurations

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References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.