CVE-2026-57516: Anyscale Ray · Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Affects Anyscale RaySource CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.6 High : upgrade to 2.56.0 soon.
Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 12:10 UTC
Thin evidence
One scorer or none| CNA (VulnCheck) | CVSS 4.0 | 8.6 |
|---|---|---|
| CNA (VulnCheck) | CVSS 3.1 | 8.8 |
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 58% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
- Patch
- Available – fixed in 2.56.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 1 Jul 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 13 Nov 2026.
What to do
Upgrade Anyscale Ray to 2.56.0.
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Anyscale, IncRay | Affected
| Fixed in– |
PyPIRaypkg:pypi/RayOther threats | Affected
| Fixed in
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AI-suggested
If you cannot patch yet, avoid processing untrusted or unauthenticated tar archives with the read_webdataset() function. Restrict access to the functionality that accepts WebDataset inputs to trusted sources only.
Description
Ray prior to 2.56.0 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in the WebDataset reader that allows attackers to achieve remote code execution by supplying a malicious tar archive to the read_webdataset() function. The _default_decoder() function in webdataset_datasource.py unconditionally calls pickle.loads() on tar entries with .pkl/.pickle extensions and torch.load() with weights_only=False on .pt/.pth entries, executing arbitrary code inside Ray remote workers on every worker that processes the malicious archive.
References
- github.com/ray-project/ray/releases/tag/ray-2.56.0 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/ray-project/ray/security/advisories/GHSA-hhrp-gw25-jr43 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/63469 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/63470 (opens in a new tab)
- vulncheck.com/advisories/ray-unsafe-deserialization-rce-via-webdataset-reader (opens in a new tab)