VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2023-23930
vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure.
HIGH 7.2EPSS 0.89%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.89%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 3.1
- 7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.89% probability · 57th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-502
- Affected
- vantage6/vantage6
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400Release Notes
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0Patch
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6Vendor Advisory
- https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9Exploit, Permissions Required, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400Release Notes
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0Patch
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6Vendor Advisory
- https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9Exploit, Permissions Required, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.