Vulnerability · Published Oct 11, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-41882vantage6 Improper Access Control vulnerability

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity incorrect authorization in vantage6 from vantage6. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 43% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 57.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. The endpoint /api/collaboration/{id}/task is used to collect all tasks from a certain collaboration. To get such tasks, a user should have permission to view the collaboration and to view the tasks in it. However, prior to version 4.0.0, it is only checked if the user has permission to view the collaboration. Version 4.0.0 contains a patch. There are no known workarounds.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
PyPI	vantage6	4.0.0	GHSA-gc57-xhh5-m94r
PyPI	vantage6	4.0.0	PYSEC-2023-201

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
vantage6	vantage6	< 4.0.0

Weakness: CWE-863, CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/security/advisories/GHSA-gc57-xhh5-m94r x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/pull/711 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/blob/0682c4288f43fee5bcc72dc448cdd99bd7e57f76/docs/release_notes.rst#400 x_refsource_MISC