vantage6 up to 3.x information disclosure

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in vantage6 up to 3.x. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-41881. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in vantage6 up to 3.x. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. When a collaboration is deleted, the linked resources (such as tasks from that collaboration) should be deleted. This is partly to manage data properly, but also to prevent a potential (but unlikely) side-effect that affects versions prior to 4.0.0, where if a collaboration with id=10 is deleted, and subsequently a new collaboration is created with id=10, the authenticated users in that collaboration could potentially see results of the deleted collaboration in some cases. Version 4.0.0 contains a patch for this issue. There are no known workarounds.

The weakness was released 10/12/2023 as GHSA-rf54-7qrr-96j6. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-41881 since 09/04/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 4.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• vantage6

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• 3.x

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• Product: https://github.com/vantage6/vantage6/

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