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Publication date: 2025-11-12

Last updated on: 2026-07-05

Assigner: MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in PyTorch v2.5 and v2.7.1. Omission of profiler.stop() can cause torch.profiler.profile (PythonTracer) to crash or hang during finalization, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).

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Published

2025-11-12

Last Modified

2026-07-05

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-11-13

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-63396

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
linuxfoundation	pytorch	2.5.0
linuxfoundation	pytorch	2.7.1

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-667	The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability occurs in PyTorch versions 2.5 and 2.7.1 where failing to call profiler.stop() can cause the torch.profiler.profile (PythonTracer) to crash or hang during its finalization process. This leads to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

Impact Analysis

The impact of this vulnerability is a Denial of Service (DoS), meaning that the affected PyTorch profiling functionality can crash or become unresponsive, potentially disrupting applications or services that rely on it.

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