Cleartext storage of sensitive information in Scikit-learn - CVE-2024-5206
Published: August 13, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95806
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5206
CWE-ID: CWE-312
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: scikit-learn.org
Affected software:
Scikit-learn
Scikit-learn
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in TfidfVectorizer, which includes sensitive information such as tokens into the training data set. A local user can run the application with the default arguments except that we limit the vocabulary size and gain access to sensitive information.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-5206
Install updates from vendor's website.