Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting vantage6 package, versions [,4.0.2)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-VANTAGE6-5961717
- published 12 Oct 2023
- disclosed 11 Oct 2023
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 11 Oct 2023
CVE-2023-23930 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade vantage6 to version 4.0.2 or higher.
Overview
vantage6 is a vantage6 command line interface
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data through the pickle module. An attacker can exploit known security issues by posting tasks with the default serialization.
Details
Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.
Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.