Local code execution via unescaped tutorial paths
Published Feb 18, 2026 · Updated Feb 18, 2026
Code injection in NVIDIA Megatron Bridge before 0.2.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands through its data-shuffling tutorial. The tutorial builds a shell command from user-controlled source and output paths and passes it to subprocess.run with shell=True, allowing shell metacharacters to escape the intended split, shuf, and awk pipeline. A low-privileged local user must supply the tutorial inputs; execution uses the tutorial process's privileges and can expose or alter data or elevate privileges when that process has greater rights.
Summary
What happened
Code injection in NVIDIA Megatron Bridge before 0.2.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands through its data-shuffling tutorial. The tutorial builds a shell command from user-controlled source and output paths and passes it to subprocess.run with shell=True, allowing shell metacharacters to escape the intended split, shuf, and awk pipeline. A low-privileged local user must supply the tutorial inputs; execution uses the tutorial process's privileges and can expose or alter data or elevate privileges when that process has greater rights.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-33240
- Published
- Feb 18, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 18, 2026
- Vendor
- DPDK Project
- Product
- Megatron Bridge
- Classifications
- CWE-94, T1059.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 18, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 18, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=All versions prior to 0.2.2
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