Deserialization of Untrusted Data in transformers - CVE-2023-7018
Published: August 13, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95803
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-7018
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation in TransfoXLTokenizer when loading vocab.pkl file. A remote attacker can pass specially a crafted file to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
transformers
Python for Scientific Computing
Python for Scientific Computing
How to mitigate CVE-2023-7018
Install updates from vendor's website.
transformers - update to 4.36.0
Python for Scientific Computing - update to 4.2.1
Python for Scientific Computing - update to 4.2.1