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CVE-2023-23930

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-23930 affects vantage6, a federated learning infrastructure, in versions prior to 4.0.0 due to its default use of the insecure pickle serialization module. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), indicating that a highly privileged attacker can achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability over the network with low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vantage6:vantage6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0089 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 5,531 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: vantage6Fixed in: 4.0.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6high

Pickle serialization vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Oct 13, 2023

References

github.com / vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst
Release Notes
github.com / vantage6/vantage6/commit/e62f03bacf2247bd59eed217e2e7338c3a01a5f0
Patch
github.com / vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-5m22-cfq9-86x6
Vendor Advisory
medium.com / ochrona/python-pickle-is-notoriously-insecure-d6651f1974c9
ExploitPermissions RequiredTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory