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CVE-2023-23930
vantage6's Pickle serialization is insecure
Medium5.5EPSS 1.1%
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- Updated
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- GitHub_M
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIvantage6GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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