Improper Input ValidationWeakness · CWE-20

CVE-2026-15535

MEDIUM · 6.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-07-13
Patch available
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69/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable Zero-click Patch available 5 weeks old

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
A vulnerability was determined in AkariAsai self-rag up to 1fcdc420e48f50a7d7ab1ece5494221b93252e99. Affected by this issue is the function Indexer.deserialize_from of the file retrieval_lm/src/index.py of the component retrieval_lm. Executing a manipulation of the argument index_meta.faiss can lead to deserialization. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. This product operates on a rolling release basis, ensuring continuous delivery. Consequently, there are no version details for either affected or updated releases. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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How this class of weakness works · CWE-20

The application accepts input without confirming it is well-formed or within expected bounds, so malformed data can push the program into states its author never anticipated. Attackers probe these gaps to trigger crashes, bypass logic, or feed tainted values into more dangerous operations downstream. Remediating it well means validating and normalising every input at the boundary against a strict allow-list — not merely filtering known-bad values.

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From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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