🛡️ GHSA-3x5x-fw77-g54c — dgl

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-502 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

dmlc/dgl Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution by Pickle Deserialization via rpc.recv_request()

Impact

Dgl implements rpc server (start_server() in rpc_server.py) for supporting the RPC communications among different remote users over networks. It relies on pickle serialize and deserialize to pack and unpack network messages. The is a known risk in pickle deserialization functionality that can be used for remote code execution.

Patches

TBD.

Workarounds

When running DGL distributed training and inference (DistDGL) make sure you do not assign public IPs to any instance in the cluster.

References

Issue #7874

Reported by

Pinji Chen ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])) from NISL lab (https://netsec.ccert.edu.cn/about) at Tsinghua University

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-3x5x-fw77-g54c is classified as CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data. Serialised data from an untrusted source is reconstructed into objects, which can trigger code during the process.

Affected software

GHSA-3x5x-fw77-g54c is recorded against 1 package.

  • dgl

Timeline and source

Published on 5 March 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
CWE CWE-502
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-03-05
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-03-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
dgl

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