CVE-2026-103663
CRITICAL
9,4
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: passive
Confidentiality: N/A
Integrity: N/A
Availability: N/A
Description
AI Translation Available
Ollama is vulnerable to path traversal in the `/api/pull` endpoint due to insufficient validation of layer digests by the `digestToPath` function. An unauthenticated remote attacker can specify a path traversal sequence as a layer digest, causing a malicious binary to be written outside the model store.
Critically if the server process has write access to `/usr/lib/ollama` (the default in most Ollama Docker images), an attacker can write the malicious file to that directory. On the next server restart, the file is loaded and executed, resulting in remote code execution as root.
This issue was fixed in version 0.35.0.
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Relative Path Traversal
DraftCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Integrity
Confidentiality
Availability
Potential Impacts:
Execute Unauthorized Code Or Commands
Modify Files Or Directories
Read Files Or Directories
Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart
Applicable Platforms
Technologies:
Not Technology-Specific, Web Based, AI/ML
913
Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources
IncompleteCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Integrity
Other
Potential Impacts:
Execute Unauthorized Code Or Commands
Varies By Context
Alter Execution Logic
Applicable Platforms
Languages:
Not Language-Specific, Interpreted
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/10/CVE-2026-103663/
https://ollama.com/