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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0
Release Notes x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400
Exploit, Permissions Required, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0080
EPSS Percentile
74.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-502
Status
published
Products (2)
pypi/vantage6
0 - 4.0.2PyPI
vantage6/vantage6
< 4.0.2
Published
Oct 11, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026