CVE-2026-84452

Windows ML CLI: CORS misconfig enables localhost RCE

State
Published
Severity
8.6 High
Published
Sep 2, 2026
Updated
Sep 3, 2026
Reserved
Sep 1, 2026

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Description

Windows ML CLI is a command line tool for building portable, performant, and high-quality AI models for Windows ML. Prior to 0.4.0, the src/winml/modelkit/serve/cli_api.py component exposes WinML CLI commands through a localhost HTTP API without authentication and configures the allow_origins setting as a wildcard in both src/winml/modelkit/serve/cli_api.py and src/winml/modelkit/serve/app.py. A malicious website loaded by a user can send cross-origin requests to /v1/cli/build or /v1/cli/config and set the trust_remote_code parameter to true, which is converted to the --trust-remote-code command-line flag without validation. This reaches AutoConfig.from_pretrained with trust_remote_code=True in src/winml/modelkit/loader/_autoconfig.py and imports Python code from an attacker-controlled model repository, resulting in arbitrary code execution as the server user. This issue is fixed in version 0.4.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.6 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-942 Permissive Cross-domain Policy with Untrusted Domains
  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Affected Products

ProductVersions
winml-climicrosoft
  • < 0.4.0Affected

References

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