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Race Condition Affecting nvflare package, versions [,2.4.2)[2.5.0rc1,2.5.0rc2)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-NVFLARE-7856156
  • published2 Sept 2024
  • disclosed1 Sept 2024
  • creditUnknown
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Introduced: 1 Sep 2024

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nvflare to version 2.4.2, 2.5.0rc2 or higher.

Overview

nvflare is a Federated Learning Application Runtime Environment

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition in utils/pipe/pipe_handler.py, where an attacker can cause the self.pipe object to be set to None during execution, triggering a crash.

CVSS Scores

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