Deserialization in Vantage6

CVE-2023-23930

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.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.009 (55.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-23930?
CVE-2023-23930 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vantage6, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-10-11.
How severe is CVE-2023-23930?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.