CVE-2026-44484 (GCVE-0-2026-44484)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-14 14:59 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:10
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Title
Compromise of PyTorch Lightning PyPi Package Versions
Summary
PyTorch Lightning is a deep learning framework to pretrain and finetune AI models. Versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.2 have introduced functionality consistent with a credential harvesting mechanism.
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-506 - Embedded Malicious Code
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Lightning-AI pytorch-lightning Affected: 2.6.2
Affected: 2.6.3
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