Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-18286 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-18286 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-18286?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.8, published 20 August 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- aeon-toolkit aeon.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-18286?
- A patch was published on 2026-07-29: Patch released; coordinated public disclosure Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-18286 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-18286?
- Check whether anything you run is named in the advisory. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is a code injection flaw in the load_human_activity_segmentation_datasets method that results from insufficient validation of user-supplied strings before they are executed as Python code. The attack requires user interaction—specifically, the target must open a malicious dataset file or visit a compromised page—making the attack vector local with user interaction. An attacker can leverage this to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current Python process with the same privileges as the user running the application. A patch has been issued and is available in the GitHub repository (commit 751918052c0cce266b4f7cd4b084408526efc015).
Affected products
- aeon-toolkit aeon
Timeline
- 2026-02-19: disclosed: Vulnerability reported to vendor
- 2026-07-29: patched: Patch released; coordinated public disclosure
- 2026-07-29: advisory: ZDI advisory published