PYSEC-2023-196

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    PYSEC-2023-196

    Published: 11 Oct 2023Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023

    Summary:

    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://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9, https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6, https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400, https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: vantage6

    Purl: pkg:pypi/vantage6

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0

    Affected versions

    0.0.0
    0.0.0b0
    0.0.0b1
    0.0.0b3

    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
    PYSEC-2023-196 | CVE-DB