CVE-2026-62239

FlashAttention through 2.8.3.post1, fixed in commit 0816ef1, contains a symlink attack vulnerability in the downloadandcopy function within hopper/setup.py that extracts NVIDIA toolchain archives without validating symlinks or filtering tar members. A local attacker can pre-plant a symlink in the...

CVE-2026-62239

FlashAttention (up to 2.8.3.post1) contains a symlink attack in hopper/setup.py: download_and_copy() extracts NVIDIA toolchain archives without validating symlinks or filtering tar members. A local attacker can plant a predictable symlink in the cache to redirect extracted binaries to a chosen lo...