Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the HDF5 weight loading component in Google Keras 3.0.0 through 3.13.0 on all platforms allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) through memory exhaustion and a crash of the Python interpreter via a crafted .keras archive containing a valid model.weights.h5 file whose dataset declares an extremely large shape.

Metrics

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction Passive

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00096.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-xfhx-r7ww-5995 Google Keras Allocates Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the HDF5 weight loading component
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
https://github.com/keras-team/keras/pull/21880 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0897 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0897 cve-icon
History

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Keras
Keras keras
Vendors & Products Keras
Keras keras

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H'}

threat_severity

Important

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Description Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the HDF5 weight loading component in Google Keras 3.0.0 through 3.13.0 on all platforms allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) through memory exhaustion and a crash of the Python interpreter via a crafted .keras archive containing a valid model.weights.h5 file whose dataset declares an extremely large shape.
Title Denial of Service in Keras via Excessive Memory Allocation in HDF5 Metadata
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Google

Published:

Updated: 2026-01-15T16:38:18.772Z

Reserved: 2026-01-13T15:59:54.703Z

Link: CVE-2026-0897

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-15T16:38:08.610Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-01-15T14:16:26.890

Modified: 2026-01-16T15:55:33.063

Link: CVE-2026-0897

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-01-15T14:09:53Z

Links: CVE-2026-0897 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-01-16T13:43:37Z

Weaknesses