CVE-2023-28635CWE-863

Defining resource name as integer in vantage6 may give unintended access

Medium · published October 11, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
1%
Percentile
42.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. Prior to version 4.0.0, malicious users may try to get access to resources they are not allowed to see, by creating resources with integers as names. One example where this is a risk, is when users define which users are allowed to run algorithms on their node. This may be defined by username or user id. Now, for example, if user id 13 is allowed to run tasks, and an attacker creates a username with username '13', they would be wrongly allowed to run an algorithm. There may also be other places in the code where such a mixup of resource ID or name leads to issues. Version 4.0.0 contains a patch for this issue. The best solution is to check when resources are created or modified, that the resource name always starts with a character.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00504 · 42.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
Published
2023-10-11T19:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 OCT 19:21Z
    Defining resource name as integer in vantage6 may give unintended access
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