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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2026-41486 json

Ray: Remote Code Execution via Parquet Arrow Extension Type Deserialization

published 2026-04-24 6 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2026-28828 , GHSA-mw35-8rx3-xf9r , PYSEC-2026-2272 , PYSEC-2026-2296

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Ray is an AI compute engine. From version 2.54.0 to before version 2.55.0, Ray Data registers custom Arrow extension types (ray.data.arrow_tensor, ray.data.arrow_tensor_v2, ray.data.arrow_variable_shaped_tensor) globally in PyArrow. When PyArrow reads a Parquet file containing one of these extension types, it calls __arrow_ext_deserialize__ on the field's metadata bytes. Ray's implementation passes these bytes directly to cloudpickle.loads(), achieving arbitrary code execution during schema parsing, before any row data is read. This issue has been patched in version 2.55.0.

Patch / fix

  • pypi ray 2.55.0
  • anyscale ray 2.55.0
  • ray_project ray 2.55.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-41486 updated cvss 8.8

ray: Ray: Arbitrary code execution via deserialization of malicious Parquet files

  • Red Hat AI Inference Server rhaii/vllm-gaudi-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-vllm-gaudi-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-agent-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-router-rhel9, rhoai/odh-feature-server-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-controller-rhel9, rhai-early-access/docling-serve-cuda-rhel9, +15 more
    under investigation

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
5 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CNA 4.0 8.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/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:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi ray
>=2.49.0, <2.55.0
<=2.54.0
2.55.0
pypi ve-ray
<=2.54.0
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • ray-project ray

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.