CVE-2025-33213

NVIDIA Merlin Transformers4Rec for Linux contains a vulnerability in the Trainer component, where a user could cause a deserialization issue. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, and data tampering.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Potential Mitigations

• Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
• An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586.html

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33213
• https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5739
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-33213