Cato CTRL Threat Research: New Vulnerabilities in NVIDIA NeMo and Meta PyTorch Enable Full System Compromise
Cato CTRL has discovered high-severity vulnerabilities in NVIDIA NeMo (CVE-2025-33236 with a CVSS score of 7.8) and Meta PyTorch that turns AI model files into remote code execution (RCE) vectors. The NeMo vulnerability allows RCE by importing a malicious AI model. The NeMo framework silently executes threat actor-controlled code with no warning.