CVE-2021-39207

HIGH

Facebook Parlai < 1.1.0 - Insecure Deserialization

Title source: rule

Description

parlai is a framework for training and evaluating AI models on a variety of openly available dialogue datasets. In affected versions the package is vulnerable to YAML deserialization attack caused by unsafe loading which leads to Arbitary code execution. This security bug is patched by avoiding unsafe loader users should update to version above v1.1.0. If upgrading is not possible then users can change the Loader used to SafeLoader as a workaround. See commit 507d066ef432ea27d3e201da08009872a2f37725 for details.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.4
EPSS 0.0135
EPSS Percentile 79.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Classification

CWE
CWE-502
Status published

Affected Products (2)

facebook/parlai < 1.1.0
pypi/parlai < 1.1.0PyPI

Timeline

Published Sep 10, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026