CVE-2026-105745

A moderate-impact vulnerability was found in Docling, which is shipped in Red Hat OpenShift AI and Lightspeed Core products. Docling plugin factories in docling/models/factories/base_factory.py call load_setuptools_entrypoints() before applying the allow_external_plugins setting, so every module registered in the Docling entry-point group is imported during startup even when external plugins are explicitly disabled. A local attacker, or an attacker able to place a compromised third-party package into the Docling Python environment, can exploit this to execute arbitrary code at import time when Docling starts. Code execution is confined to the privileges of the process running Docling, and exploitation depends on an untrusted entry point already being present in the environment. Red Hat rates this flaw as Moderate severity (CVSS 6.7), lower than the NIST score of 7.8 (Important), because exploitation requires local access with low privileges to install a malicious entry point and depends on specific preconditions, resulting in higher attack complexity. Because the impact is Moderate with a CVSS score below 7.0, Red Hat has deferred the fix for the affected products rather than filing fix trackers at this time. The residual risk is limited to environments where an untrusted or compromised package can be installed into the same Python environment as Docling.