CVE-2020-13091

CRITICAL

pandas <= 1.0.3 - Remote Code Execution via read_pickle() Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

pandas through 1.0.3 can unserialize and execute commands from an untrusted file that is passed to the read_pickle() function, if __reduce__ makes an os.system call. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue because the read_pickle() function is documented as unsafe and it is the user's responsibility to use the function in a secure manner

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/0FuzzingQ/vuln/blob/master/pandas%20unserialize.md

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0339
EPSS Percentile 87.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-502
Status published
Products (1)
numfocus/pandas < 1.0.3
Published May 15, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026