CVE-2021-39207 (GCVE-0-2021-39207)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-10 22:20 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:58
VLAI
Title
Deserialization of Untrusted Data in parlai
Summary
parlai is a framework for training and evaluating AI models on a variety of openly available dialogue datasets. In affected versions the package is vulnerable to YAML deserialization attack caused by unsafe loading which leads to Arbitary code execution. This security bug is patched by avoiding unsafe loader users should update to version above v1.1.0. If upgrading is not possible then users can change the Loader used to SafeLoader as a workaround. See commit 507d066ef432ea27d3e201da08009872a2f37725 for details.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7798 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
facebookresearch ParlAI Affected: < 1.1.0
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