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CVE-2026-9147highCWE-94

uproot 5.7.4 and prior Code Injection via TStreamerInfo Metadata

41Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 8.5epss 0.2%
from disclosure to weapon28 days
Published on NVDJul 18
1st PoC+28d
exploitation probability
0.2%top 95% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
uproot dynamically generates Python class source code from ROOT TStreamerInfo records in a file and compiles it at runtime. Some file-controlled streamer metadata fields (for example, streamer element names) are interpolated into the generated Python source without safe quoting via repr() or the !r format specifier. An attacker who can supply a crafted ROOT file can place Python expression-breaking content into a streamer metadata field. When uproot generates and invokes the corresponding reader method, the injected Python expression is evaluated in the context of the process opening the file, resulting in arbitrary Python code execution in applications that open or process attacker-controlled ROOT files with affected uproot code paths.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
scikit-hep · uproot
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