GHSA-4957-7vhp-7v59

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    GHSA-4957-7vhp-7v59

    Published: 26 Jan 2024Last Modified: 29 Jun 2026

    Summary: Deserialization of untrusted data in synthcity

    Details: A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in van_der_Schaar LAB synthcity 0.2.9. Affected by this issue is the function load_from_file of the component PKL File Handler. The manipulation leads to deserialization. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-252182 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early and confirmed immediately the existence of the issue. A patch is planned to be released in February 2024.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0937, https://github.com/bayuncao/vul-cve-6, https://github.com/vanderschaarlab/synthcity, https://github.com/vanderschaarlab/synthcity/blob/73cfd8ca784f70141fc7f2969221cd3b5737f7b1/src/synthcity/utils/serialization.py#L30, https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.252182, https://vuldb.com/?id.252182

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: synthcity

    Purl: pkg:pypi/synthcity

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
    0.0.2
    0.0.3

    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
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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