Deserialization of Untrusted Data in binary-husky/gpt_academic

Vulnerability Description

A pickle deserialization vulnerability exists in the Latex English error correction plug-in function of binary-husky/gpt_academic versions up to and including 3.83. This vulnerability allows attackers to achieve remote command execution by deserializing untrusted data. The issue arises from the inclusion of numpy in the deserialization whitelist, which can be exploited by constructing a malicious compressed package containing a merge_result.pkl file and a merge_proofread_en.tex file. The vulnerability is fixed in commit 91f5e6b.

References

• https://huntr.com/bounties/f233a365-522c-44f6-876f-db492fb58ad5
• https://github.com/binary-husky/gpt_academic/commit/91f5e6b8f754beb47b02f7c1893804c1c9543ccb