Deserialization of Untrusted Data in transformers - CVE-2023-7018
Published: August 13, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95803
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-7018
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: huggingface
Affected software:
transformers
transformers
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2023-7018
Install updates from vendor's website.