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CVE-2026-7482: Ollama contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the GGUF model loader

highCVSS 4.0 8.8 · 3.1 9.1GHSA-x8qc-fggm-mpqg

Ollama before 0.17.1 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the GGUF model loader. The /api/create endpoint accepts an attacker-supplied GGUF file in which the declared tensor offset and size exceed the file's actual length; during quantization in fs/ggml/gguf.go and server/quantization.go (WriteTo()), the server reads past the allocated heap buffer.

Published May 4, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026

Affected packages

github.com/ollama/ollama

Ecosystem
Go
Affected
< 0.17.1
Fixed in
0.17.1
Check
go list -m github.com/ollama/ollama

Advisory details

From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).

Ollama before 0.17.1 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the GGUF model loader. The /api/create endpoint accepts an attacker-supplied GGUF file in which the declared tensor offset and size exceed the file's actual length; during quantization in fs/ggml/gguf.go and server/quantization.go (WriteTo()), the server reads past the allocated heap buffer. The leaked memory contents may include environment variables, API keys, system prompts, and concurrent users' conversation data, and can be exfiltrated by uploading the resulting model artifact through the /api/push endpoint to an attacker-controlled registry. The /api/create and /api/push endpoints have no authentication in the upstream distribution. Default deployments bind to 127.0.0.1, but the documented OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0 configuration is widely used in practice (large public-internet exposure observed).

References

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