Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Affecting pytorch-lightning package, versions [0,2.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYTORCHLIGHTNING-7411413
  • published28 Jun 2024
  • disclosed27 Jun 2024
  • creditzpbrent

Introduced: 27 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-5980  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pytorch-lightning to version 2.4.0 or higher.

Overview

pytorch-lightning is a lightweight PyTorch wrapper for ML researchers. Scale your models. Write less boilerplate.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type through the /v1/runs API endpoint when extracting tar.gz files. An attacker can deploy the malicious tar.gz plugins that exploit path traversal vulnerabilities, allowing to write files to arbitrary locations on the victim's file system.

CVSS Scores

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