GHSA-486p-g8x4-77mg

Duplicate Advisory: ONNX: TOCTOU arbitrary file read/write in save_external_dat

Published

2026-08-21

Modified

2026-09-08

Sources

github-advisory

Summary

## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-q56x-g2fj-4rj6. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description In ONNX before 1.21.0, the 'save_external_data' function builds the external-data file path from the model's external_data location field and opens it for writing without 'O_NOFOLLOW/O_EXCL', after a non-atomic 'os.path.isfile()' check. A local attacker with write access to the directory where a victim serializes external data can deterministically pre-plant a symlink that is being followed, causing the victim's write to append to any file the victim can write, e.g. ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, cron files, or application configs. Fixed in 1.21.0.

Affected packages

Remediation: No patched version is listed by GitHub.

References

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-486p-g8x4-77mg