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CVE-2026-0897

Denial of Service in Keras via Excessive Memory Allocation in HDF5 Metadata

Published: Jan 15, 2026Updated: Jan 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-770
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 71.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the HDF5 weight loading component in Google Keras 3.0.0 through 3.13.0 on all platforms allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) through memory exhaustion and a crash of the Python interpreter via a crafted .keras archive containing a valid model.weights.h5 file whose dataset declares an extremely large shape.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-770

Affected Products

KerasGoogle
LibraryLibrary
AI / ML / ml-framework
keraskeras
Library
AI / ML / ml-framework
kerasPyPIOSS Libraries
googlecommercialUSMobile Appsaka google inc, google llc
kerasoss-projectAI / ML
pypipackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Exploitability

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References

https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/21880
github.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0897
nvd.nist.gov
https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/22081
github.com
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Timeline

Published
Jan 15, 2026
Last Updated
Jan 23, 2026

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