{"id":"CVE-2023-23930","summary":"vantage6's Pickle serialization is insecure","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.","aliases":["GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6","PYSEC-2023-196"],"modified":"2026-04-10T04:55:44.143136Z","published":"2023-10-11T17:39:23.504Z","database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/23xxx/CVE-2023-23930.json","cwe_ids":["CWE-502"],"cna_assigner":"GitHub_M"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/23xxx/CVE-2023-23930.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23930"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"7948b4b29f203df3b87f2f2a65bb44ee3e58433b"}]}],"versions":["version/0.0.0b3","version/3.3.0","version/3.3.0rc1","version/3.3.0rc2","version/3.3.0rc3","version/3.3.0rc4","version/3.3.1","version/3.3.2","version/3.3.3","version/3.3.4","version/3.3.5","version/3.3.6","version/4.0.0a1","version/4.0.0a10","version/4.0.0a2","version/4.0.0a3","version/4.0.0a4","version/4.0.0a5","version/4.0.0a6","version/4.0.0a7","version/4.0.0a8","version/4.0.0a9"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-23930.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N"}]}