A command injection vulnerability exists in MLflow's model serving container initialization code, specifically in the _install_model_dependencies_to_env() function. When deploying a model with env_manager=LOCAL, MLflow reads dependency specifications from the model artifact's python_env.yaml file and directly interpolates them into a shell command without sanitization. This allows an attacker to supply a malicious model artifact and achieve arbitrary command execution on systems that deploy the model. The vulnerability affects versions 3.8.0 and is fixed in version 3.8.1.
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"nvd_published_at": "2026-03-30T08:16:15Z",
"severity": "CRITICAL",
"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-77"
],
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-04-01T00:08:33Z"
}