CVE-2024-12044: Open-Mmlab Open-Mmlab/mmdetection

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in open-mmlab/mmdetection version v3.3.0. The vulnerability is due to the use of the `pickle.loads()` function in the `all_reduce_dict()` distributed training API without proper sanitization. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by broadcasting a malicious payload to the distributed training network.

Affected products

• Open-Mmlab Open-Mmlab/mmdetection: affected versions not specified

Published 2025-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.