CVE-2026-24156
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 · uneditedNVIDIA DALI contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause a deserialization of untrusted data. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to arbitrary code execution.
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.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceNVIDIA DALI contains a deserialization vulnerability where untrusted data can be deserialized, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution. This is a unsafe deserialization issue in the data loading pipeline that could be exploited by providing malicious serialized data to the affected component.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data< 2.0.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm NVIDIA DALI is installedRun 'pip show nvidia-dali' or check your Python environment for the nvidia-dali packageAffected if nvidia-dali is not found in your environment, you are not affected
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Identify the installed DALI versionRun 'pip show nvidia-dali' and note the Version field, or import dali and print dali.__version__Affected if The installed version is lower than 2.0.0 (e.g., 1.x.x series)
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Determine if your pipeline uses deserializationInspect your DALI pipeline code for use of readers, file readers, or any data loading that reads serialized/binary data formatsAffected if Your pipeline reads data from external or untrusted sources using DALI readers
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Check if data from untrusted sources is being deserializedReview pipeline inputs to determine if data comes from user-provided files, network sources, or other untrusted inputs that get deserialized by DALIAffected if Your DALI pipeline processes data from untrusted or external sources without validation
You are affected if NVIDIA DALI version is below 2.0.0 AND your pipeline deserializes data from untrusted or external sources.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor data2.0.0
Avoid deserializing untrusted data in DALI processing pipelines. Apply vendor patches when available. If deserialization is required, implement whitelisting of allowed types and use safe deserialization formats. Apply principle of least privilege to limit blast radius of any successful exploitation.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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