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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vantage6 | vantage6 | < 4.0.0 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | vantage6 | < 4.0.2 | 4.0.2 | GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6 |
References
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0
- https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400
- https://medium.com/ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9