In short
- CVE-2026-45833 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting chromadb, chromadb (trychroma).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.34%, higher than 27.8% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| chromadb PyPI | ≥ 0.4.17, ≤ 1.5.9
| No fix yet |
| chromadb | ≥ 0.4.17, ≤ 1.5.9
| No fix yet |
Description
A code injection vulnerability in version 0.4.17 or later of the ChromaDB Python project allows an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary code on the server by sending a malicious model repository and trust_remote_code set to true in the /api/v2/tenants/default_tenant/databases/default_database/collections/{collection_id} if they have the UPDATE_COLLECTION permission.
NVD description
A code injection vulnerability in version 0.4.17 or later of the ChromaDB Python project allows an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary code on the server by sending a malicious model repository and trust_remote_code set to true in the /api/v2/tenants/default_tenant/databases/default_database/collections/{collection_id} if they have the UPDATE_COLLECTION permission.
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