MLX has Wild Pointer Dereference in load_gguf()_CVE-2025-62609

5.5 / 10

MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Description

MLX is an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon. Prior to version 0.29.4, there is a segmentation fault in mlx::core::load_gguf() when loading malicious GGUF files. Untrusted pointer from external gguflib library is dereferenced without validation, causing application crash. This issue has been patched in version 0.29.4.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-62609

Source GitHub_M

Published Nov 21, 2025 at 18:57

Modified Nov 21, 2025 at 19:09

Affected Product

Vendor ml-explore

Product mlx

Version < 0.29.4

Affected Versions ml-explore mlx < 0.29.4

CWE Classification

CWE-476

References

github.com /ml-explore/mlx/security/advisories/GHSA-j842-xgm4-wf88

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