THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-13091
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2020-13091

Pandas vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
pandas through 1.0.3 can unserialize and execute commands from an untrusted file that is passed to the read_pickle() function, if __reduce__ makes an os.system call. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue because the read_pickle() function is documented as unsafe and it is the user's responsibility to use the function in a secure manner
Affected vendor
Numfocus
Affected product
Pandas
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Published
2020-05-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-13091

  • Confirm whether Numfocus Pandas is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-13091.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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