HIGH7.2
PYSEC-2023-196
Quick fix
PYSEC-2023-196 — vantage6: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
pip install --upgrade 'vantage6>=e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0'Details
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.
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Affected packages
PyPI/vantage6
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0Fix
pip install --upgrade 'vantage6>=e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0'References
- https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9[WEB]
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400[WEB]
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0[FIX]