Deserialization of Untrusted Data in transformers - CVE-2024-3568

 

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in transformers - CVE-2024-3568

Published: August 13, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU95805
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-2024-3568
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 within the load_repo_checkpoint() function of the TFPreTrainedModel() class. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data 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
watsonx Orchestrate Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Python for Scientific Computing

How to mitigate CVE-2024-3568

Install updates from vendor's website.

transformers - update to 4.38.0
Python for Scientific Computing - update to 4.2.1
watsonx Orchestrate Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.2
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator - update to 5.0.3
Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.2.2

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