PyPi: Vantage6

CVE-2023-23930

Safety vulnerability ID: 61778

This vulnerability was reviewed by experts

The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Oct 11, 2023 Updated at Dec 13, 2024
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Advisory

Vantage6 4.0.0 includes a fix for CVE-2023-23930: 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. Users may specify JSON serialization as a workaround.
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6

Affected package

vantage6

Latest version: 4.8.2

vantage6 command line interface

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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. See CVE-2023-23930.


MISC:https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400: https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400
MISC:https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0: https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0
MISC:https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6: https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6
MISC:https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9: https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

HIGH 7.2

CVSS v3 Details

HIGH 7.2
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
HIGH
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
HIGH