Ray is an AI compute engine. From version 2.54.0 to before version 2.55.0, Ray Data registers custom Arrow extension types (ray.data.arrow_tensor, ray.data.arrow_tensor_v2, ray.data.arrow_variable_shaped_tensor) globally in PyArrow. When PyArrow reads a Parquet file containing one of these extension types, it calls __arrow_ext_deserialize__ on the field's metadata bytes. Ray's implementation passes these bytes directly to cloudpickle.loads(), achieving arbitrary code execution during schema parsing, before any row data is read. This issue has been patched in version 2.55.0.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-mw35-8rx3-xf9r Ray: Remote Code Execution via Parquet Arrow Extension Type Deserialization
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Description Ray is an AI compute engine. From version 2.54.0 to before version 2.55.0, Ray Data registers custom Arrow extension types (ray.data.arrow_tensor, ray.data.arrow_tensor_v2, ray.data.arrow_variable_shaped_tensor) globally in PyArrow. When PyArrow reads a Parquet file containing one of these extension types, it calls __arrow_ext_deserialize__ on the field's metadata bytes. Ray's implementation passes these bytes directly to cloudpickle.loads(), achieving arbitrary code execution during schema parsing, before any row data is read. This issue has been patched in version 2.55.0.
Title Ray: Remote Code Execution via Parquet Arrow Extension Type Deserialization
Weaknesses CWE-502
CWE-94
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-08T21:46:14.442Z

Reserved: 2026-04-20T16:14:19.007Z

Link: CVE-2026-41486

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-08T22:16:29.903

Modified: 2026-05-08T22:16:29.903

Link: CVE-2026-41486

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-08T23:30:15Z

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