MLX — Vulnerability (CVE-2025-62609)
Date: 2025-11
Affected: ml-explore/mlx
Attack vector: dos
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2025-62609
CWE: CWE-476
CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

MLX is an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon. Prior to version 0.29.4, there is a segmentation fault in mlx::core::load_gguf() when loading malicious GGUF files. Untrusted pointer from external gguflib library is dereferenced without validation, causing application crash. This issue has been patched in version 0.29.4.


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