CVE-2023-23930

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    CVE-2023-23930

    Published: 11 Oct 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: vantage6's Pickle serialization is insecure

    Details: 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.

    References: https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400, https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/23xxx/CVE-2023-23930.json, https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23930, https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -570fac1e14db0784d4475e186ba4dbdcc5985983

    Affected versions

    version/4.0.1
    version/4.0.1rc2
    version/4.0.1rc1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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