CVE-2023-23930

HIGH EPSS 54.9%
Published Oct 11, 20232y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
7.2 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published Oct 11, 2023 2y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

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.

CVSS Details

Base Score
7.2
Exploitability
1.2
Impact
5.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required High
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
54.9% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
Public Exploit Known
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Validation

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
vantage6vantage6* <4.0.2

References 4

  • github.com https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400
    Release Notes
  • github.com https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6
    Vendor Advisory
  • medium.com https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9
    ExploitPermissions RequiredTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory

Remediation

  • github.com https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0
    Patch