CVE-2023-23930 vantage6's Pickle serialization is insecure

2023-10-1117:39:23

CWE-502

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

cve-2023-23930

vantage6

pickle serialization

security issue

json serialization

CVSS3

5.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

37.4%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "vantage6",
    "product": "vantage6",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "< 4.0.0",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]