CVE-2020-28975

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-28975
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-21 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:21:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** svm_predict_values in svm.cpp in Libsvm v324, as used in scikit-learn 0.23.2 and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted model SVM (introduced via pickle, json, or any other model permanence standard) with a large value in the _n_support array. NOTE: the scikit-learn vendor's position is that the behavior can only occur if the library's API is violated by an application that changes a private attribute.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Scikit-learn Scikit-learn All All All All
Application Scikit-learn Scikit-learn 0.23.2 All All All
Application Scikit-learn Scikit-learn 0.23.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SciKit-Learn 0.23.2 Denial Of Service ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: scikit-learn 0.23.2 Local Denial of Service FULLDISC seclists.org Third Party Advisory
libsvm/svm.cpp at 9a3a9708926dec87d382c43b203f2ca19c2d56a0 · cjlin1/libsvm · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
FIX Prevents segfault in SVC when internals are altered (#21336) · scikit-learn/scikit-learn@1bf13d5 · GitHub MISC github.com
Segmentation fault on SVMLIB · Issue #18891 · scikit-learn/scikit-learn · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
scikit-learn: Denial of Service (GLSA 202301-03) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710704 Gentoo Linux scikit-learn Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (GLSA 202301-03)
  • 997083 Python (Pip) Security Update for scikit-learn (GHSA-jxfp-4rvq-9h9m)

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