CVE-2026-44484: Compromise of PyTorch Lightning PyPi Package Versions
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 37/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.39% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- Fixed version: lightning (PyPI) 2.6.4; pytorch-lightning (PyPI) 2.6.4.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to lightning (PyPI) 2.6.4; pytorch-lightning (PyPI) 2.6.4 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
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.
- Published
- May 14, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 15, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.3% · 33th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-506
Report tools
Action score
37
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 37 / 40 · 9.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.3%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · GitHub_M
- 9.3
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
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
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- No public exploit code on record
- A fix has been released
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What does it mean in your environment?
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| lightningai | pytorch lightning | cpe:2.3:a:lightningai:pytorch_lightning |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- lightningai pytorch lightning2.6.2
- lightningai pytorch lightning2.6.3
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Lightning-AI pytorch-lightning
- 2.6.2, 2.6.3affected
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | lightning | from 2.6.2 · before 2.6.4 | 2.6.4 |
| PyPI | pytorch-lightning | from 2.6.2 · up to and including 2.6.2 | — |
| PyPI | pytorch-lightning | from 2.6.2 · before 2.6.4 | 2.6.4 |
| PyPI | pytorch-lightning | from 2.6.3 · up to and including 2.6.3 | — |
Same product
lightningai: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2024-5452RCE via Property/Class Pollution in lightning-ai/pytorch-lightning47Plan
- CVE-2024-5980Arbitrary File Write via /v1/runs API endpoint in lightning-ai/pytorch-lightning39Monitor
- CVE-2022-0845Code Injection in pytorchlightning/pytorch-lightning39Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2024-8020Mar 20, 2025 · Denial of Service in lightning-ai/pytorch-lightning30Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-31221May 12, 2026 · PyTorch-Lightning versions 2.6.0 and earlier contain an insecure deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) in the checkpoint loading mechanism31Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-58659Jul 15, 2026 · PyTorch Lightning Arbitrary Code Execution via _instantiator Hyperparameter33Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PyPI:lightning | 2.6.4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| PyPI:pytorch-lightning | 2.6.4 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
—
Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-26-0252 · May 15, 2026(Pytorch Lightning Güvenlik Zafiyeti)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Availability
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- X
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-506 · Embedded Malicious CodeCVSS vector
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/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-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
- Data Obfuscation: SteganographyT1001.002
- Obfuscated Files or Information: SteganographyT1027.003
- Obfuscated Files or Information: Compile After DeliveryT1027.004
- Obfuscated Files or Information: Embedded PayloadsT1027.009
- Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Dependencies and Development ToolsT1195.001
- Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Supply ChainT1195.002
- Signed Binary Proxy Execution: Compiled HTML FileT1218.001
- Template InjectionT1221
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.