CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-25459 — Webank Federated Ai Technology Enabler security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

An issue was discovered in function sync_tree in hetero_decision_tree_guest.py in WeBank FATE (Federated AI Technology Enabler) 0.1 through 1.4.2 allows attackers to read sensitive information during the training process of machine learning joint modeling.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2022-06-16
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-668

Affected products

  • webank / federated_ai_technology_enabler

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

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