Is CVE-2026-120833 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-120833?

CVE-2026-120833 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.8).

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CVE-2026-120833

Description

labbench before 0.46.1 contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in read() and read_relational() that passes any file with a .p or .pickle extension to pandas.read_pickle based on the extension alone. Attackers who supply a crafted data file or relational data archive can execute arbitrary code when a user loads it with these functions.