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Status published
Medium
CVE-2023-23930
vantage6's Pickle serialization is insecure
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400
- https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9
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Vulnerable Versions:
< 4.0.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
October 11th, 2023
Last Modified:
September 18th, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N