---
id: CVE-2026-76850
title: >-
  LMDeploy Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in the
  Disaggregated Serving Peer Connector
summary: >-
  LMDeploy deserializes disaggregated-serving peer messages with pickle. The
  handle_zmq_recv coroutine in lmdeploy/pytorch/disagg/conn/engine_conn.py reads
  peer-to-peer cache-free requests with recv_pyobj(), which deserializes the
  received…
severity: critical
cvss: 9.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cvssSource: cna
cwe:
  - CWE-502
vendor: InternLM
product: lmdeploy
affected:
  - lmdeploy >= 0.9.2 < 0.16.0
ssvc:
  exploitation: poc
  automatable: 'yes'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2026-08-20T14:08:23.395015Z'
exploitAvailable: true
published: '2026-08-19'
updated: '2026-09-24'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-24T14:19:35.466Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-76850'
references:
  - url: 'https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy/issues/4804'
    label: 'GitHub Issue #4804'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy/commit/f05b4ad8bf2e2d84101a1d63b3c44fadd99223b2
    label: 'fix(disagg): use JSON instead of pickle for P2P ZMQ requests'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy/blob/v0.15.0/lmdeploy/pytorch/disagg/conn/engine_conn.py#L79
    label: Vulnerable recv_pyobj() call in v0.15.0
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy/blob/v0.15.0/lmdeploy/pytorch/disagg/conn/engine_conn.py#L61
    label: Caller-controlled zmq_address passed to connect() in v0.15.0
  - url: 'https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy/releases/tag/v0.16.0'
    label: lmdeploy v0.16.0 Release Notes
  - url: 'https://github.com/InternLM/lmdeploy'
  - url: >-
      https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/lmdeploy-remote-code-execution-via-unsafe-pickle-deserialization-in-the-disaggregated-serving-peer-connector
    label: >-
      VulnCheck Advisory: LMDeploy Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle
      Deserialization in the Disaggregated Serving Peer Connector
tags:
  - cve.org
  - exploit-available
epss: 0.00983
epssPercentile: 0.60851
ingestedAt: '2026-09-24T15:45:56.699Z'
---

## Overview

LMDeploy deserializes disaggregated-serving peer messages with pickle. The handle_zmq_recv coroutine in lmdeploy/pytorch/disagg/conn/engine_conn.py reads peer-to-peer cache-free requests with recv_pyobj(), which deserializes the received bytes with pickle.loads(), and the isinstance check against DistServeCacheFreeRequest runs only after deserialization has already completed. The peer that supplies those bytes is caller-controlled: p2p_connect passes remote_engine_endpoint_info.zmq_address from the request body to connect() on the ZMQ PULL socket, and the POST /distserve/p2p_initialize and /distserve/p2p_connect endpoints in lmdeploy/serve/openai/api_server.py apply no authentication unless the server is started with api_keys, which defaults to None. A remote attacker can direct an engine to pull from a ZMQ endpoint under their control and execute arbitrary code in the engine process. Deployments that do not enable disaggregated serving are not affected, because the receive loop is only started once the migration backend accepts the connection.

## Affected

- `lmdeploy >= 0.9.2 < 0.16.0`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.