CVE-2023-5245 (GCVE-0-2023-5245)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-15 12:52 – Updated: 2024-08-02 07:52
VLAI
Title
Using MLeap for loading a saved model (zip archive) can lead to path traversal/arbitrary file creation and possibly remote code execution.
Summary
FileUtil.extract() enumerates all zip file entries and extracts each file without validating whether file paths in the archive are outside the intended directory. When creating an instance of TensorflowModel using the saved_model format and an exported tensorflow model, the apply() function invokes the vulnerable implementation of FileUtil.extract(). Arbitrary file creation can directly lead to code execution
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
JFROG CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 66 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 0.18.0 , < 0.23.1 (maven)
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