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CVE-2026-45833

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Description

A code injection vulnerability in version 0.4.17 or later of the ChromaDB Python project allows an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary code on the server by sending a malicious model repository and trust_remote_code set to true in the /api/v2/tenants/default_tenant/databases/default_database/collections/{collection_id} if they have the UPDATE_COLLECTION permission.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.4 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
6f8de1f0-f67e-45a6-b68f-98777fdb759c
Published
2026-06-12 16:16:29.070000
Last modified
2026-10-26 11:10:00.157000
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