CVE-2026-103663

Path Traversal leading to Remote Code Execution in Ollama

State
Published
Severity
6.9 Medium
Published
Oct 8, 2026
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
Reserved
Oct 1, 2026

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Description

Ollama is vulnerable to path traversal in the `/api/pull` endpoint due to insufficient validation of layer digests by the `digestToPath` function. An unauthenticated remote attacker can specify a path traversal sequence as a layer digest, causing a malicious binary to be written outside the model store.

Critically if the server process has write access to `/usr/lib/ollama` (the default in most Ollama Docker images), an attacker can write the malicious file to that directory. On the next server restart, the file is loaded and executed, resulting in remote code execution as root.

This issue was fixed in version 0.35.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:NCERT-PL
4.09.4 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:HCERT-PL

Weaknesses

  • CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal
  • CWE-913 Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources

Affected Products

ProductVersions
OllamaOllama
  • 0.34.2 to before 0.35.0Affected

References

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