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.
The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6 | vendor advisory |
| https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0 | patch |
| https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400 | release notes |
| https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9 | exploit third party advisory permissions required technical description |