Adversarial Robustness Toolbox up to 1.20.1 Kubeflow robustness_evaluation_fgsm_pytorch.py argument injection

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A vulnerability was found in Adversarial Robustness Toolbox up to 1.20.1. It has been declared as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the file robustness_evaluation_fgsm_pytorch.py of the component Kubeflow. Such manipulation leads to argument injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-31230. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Adversarial Robustness Toolbox up to 1.20.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file robustness_evaluation_fgsm_pytorch.py of the component Kubeflow. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a argument injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-88. The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) thru 1.20.1 contains a command-line argument injection vulnerability in its Kubeflow component (robustness_evaluation_fgsm_pytorch.py). The script uses the unsafe eval() function to parse string values provided via the --clip_values and --input_shape command-line arguments. This allows an attacker to inject arbitrary Python code into these arguments, which will be executed when eval() is called. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely if an attacker can control these arguments (e.g., through pipeline configuration or automated scripts), leading to arbitrary code execution on the system running the ART evaluation.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-31230 since 03/09/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/03/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Adversarial Robustness Toolbox

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• 1.20.0
• 1.20.1

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