skops-dev skops up to 0.11.0 type distinction

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in skops-dev skops up to 0.11.0. The impacted element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes type distinction. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-54413. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in skops-dev skops up to 0.11.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a type distinction vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-351. The product does not properly distinguish between different types of elements in a way that leads to insecure behavior. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

skops is a Python library which helps users share and ship their scikit-learn based models. Versions 0.11.0 and below contain an inconsistency in MethodNode, which can be exploited to access unexpected object fields through dot notation. This can be used to achieve arbitrary code execution at load time. While this issue may seem similar to GHSA-m7f4-hrc6-fwg3, it is actually more severe, as it relies on fewer assumptions about trusted types. This is fixed in version 12.0.0.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-54413 since 07/22/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 0.12.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 0aeca055509dfb48c1506870aabdd9e247adf603 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-22762). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• skops-dev

Name

• skops

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/skops-dev/skops/

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