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CVE-2022-21797

critical

Description

The package joblib from 0 and before 1.2.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via the pre_dispatch flag in Parallel() class due to the eval() statement.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-01

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MJ5XTJS6OKJRRVXWFN5J67K3BYPEOBDF/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BVOMMW37OXZWU2EV5ONAAS462IQEHZOF/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00027.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00020.html

https://github.com/joblib/joblib/pull/1321

https://github.com/joblib/joblib/commit/b90f10efeb670a2cc877fb88ebb3f2019189e059

https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2022-21797

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6hrg-qmvc-2xh8

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-JOBLIB-3027033

https://github.com/joblib/joblib/issues/1128

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-09-26

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 9.3

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00113