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CVE-2024-0959 — A vulnerability was found in StanfordVL GibsonEnv 0.3.1

Critical CVSS 9.8

A vulnerability was found in StanfordVL GibsonEnv 0.3.1. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function cloudpickle.load of the file gibson\utils\pposgd_fuse.py. The manipulation leads to deserialization. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-252204.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.1)
Published
2024-01-27
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-502

Affected products

  • standford / gibsonenv / 0.3.1

Matched remediation archetype

Unsafe deserialization and object reconstruction

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Check exposure

  • Inventory serialization formats accepted from requests, queues, caches, files, cookies, and cross-service messages.
  • Trace whether untrusted input can select classes, types, callbacks, constructors, or object hooks during decoding.
  • Identify signing, schema validation, trust-boundary, and compatibility settings for each decoder.

Remediate safely

  • Replace native object deserialization with a data-only format and explicit schema validation.
  • If replacement is not immediate, use a safe decoder with a minimal type allowlist and disable polymorphic or executable hooks.
  • Update the affected library and add inert tests for unknown types, extra fields, malformed nesting, and unsigned data.

Authoritative sources

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