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CVE-2025-9959Sandbox escape in smolagents Local Python execution environment via dunder attributes
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 0.31%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 76% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Incomplete validation of dunder attributes allows an attacker to escape from the Local Python execution environment sandbox, enforced by smolagents. The attack requires a Prompt Injection in order to trick the agent to create malicious code.
Timeline
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By JFROG
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| JFROGCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Affected products
smolagents
- affected < 1.21.0
References
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-26607 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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