CVE-2026-96560
Description
LightLLM through 1.2.0 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the KV-transfer worker when started with --pd_trans_mode nccl, which exposes an unauthenticated RPyC control channel that deserializes attacker-supplied data. Attackers can send malicious pickled objects to the exposed RPyC ThreadedServer to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the LightLLM service account.
Predictions
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Mitigations
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References
- https://github.com/ModelTC/LightLLM/issues/1590
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm/blob/v1.2.0/lightllm/server/router/model_infer/mode_backend/pd/kv_transporter.py#L20-L36
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm/blob/v1.2.0/lightllm/server/router/model_infer/mode_backend/pd/nccl_kv_transporter.py#L247-L249
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm/blob/v1.2.0/lightllm/server/router/model_infer/mode_backend/pd/nccl_kv_transporter.py#L411-L415
- https://github.com/ModelTC/lightllm/blob/v1.2.0/lightllm/server/router/model_infer/mode_backend/pd/nccl_kv_transporter.py#L437-L461
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/lightllm-through-1.2.0-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution-via-nccl-pd-rpyc-control-channel
CWEs
CWE-502
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