Duplicate Advisory: Remote code execution via unsafe deserialization in multiprocess mode transport
Critical severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Oct 7, 2026
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Oct 16, 2026
Withdrawn
This advisory was withdrawn on Oct 16, 2026
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Oct 7, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Oct 7, 2026
Reviewed
Oct 16, 2026
Withdrawn
Oct 16, 2026
Last updated
Oct 16, 2026
Duplicate Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-w5f2-9q9c-ff4h. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
Original Description
LMCache multiprocess mode, also called distributed mode, opens an unauthenticated ZeroMQ ROUTER so worker processes can register and share KV cache blocks. Messages on that socket are msgpack. Extension code 1 is passed to DeviceIPCWrapper.Deserialize, which calls pickle.loads, while the server is still decoding request arguments and before the handler runs. A single unauthenticated ZMQ DEALER message to the transport port (default 5555) therefore executes code as the user the LMCache process runs as. Official container images run that process as root. The transport binds to localhost unless the operator sets a routable address with --host, which is how multi-node deployments let peers connect.
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