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CVE-2023-23930

vantage6's Pickle serialization is insecure

Published: Oct 11, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-502
NVD MITRE
5.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.9%
Top 45.3%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. Versions prior to 4.0.0 use pickle, which has known security issue, as a default serialization module but that has known security issues. All users of vantage6 that post tasks with the default serialization are affected. Version 4.0.0 contains a patch. Users may specify JSON serialization as a workaround.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:HUI:NS:UC:HI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:HPrivileges Required
High
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-502

Affected Products

vantage6vantage6
SaaS
Cloud & SaaS / saas-application
vantage6PyPIOSS Libraries
vantage6commercialCloud & SaaS
pypipackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

3 techniques
Execution
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References

https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400
github.com
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0
github.com
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6
github.com
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Timeline

Published
Oct 11, 2023
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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