Loading Models, Launching Shells: Abusing AI File Formats for Code Execution

Cyrus Parzian

DEF CON 33 · Day 3 · Main Stage

The explosion of AI model sharing has created a new attack surface that combines the risks of untrusted code execution with the trust dynamics of scientific software distribution. At DEF CON 33, Cyrus

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AI model supply chain attack via pickle RCE is a documented supply chain threat vector with real scale — but pickle's dangers have been public since 2011, and the novelty here is the ecosystem context, not the primitive.

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