PYSEC-2023-196

2023-10-1118:15:00

Google

osv.dev

pysec-2023-196

pickle serialization

json serialization

software

privacy preserving

federated learning

CVSS3

7.2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

Low

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.