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CVE-2023-52313: 
Python vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-52313 is a floating-point exception (FPE) vulnerability discovered in PaddlePaddle's paddle.argmin and paddle.argmax functions affecting versions before 2.6.0. The vulnerability was reported by Peng Zhou (zpbrent) from Shanghai University and was disclosed on January 3, 2024 (NVD, Paddle Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability occurs when the input tensor's numel() (number of elements) is 0, triggering a floating-point exception in the argmin and argmax functions. The issue is classified as CWE-369 (Divide By Zero). The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.5 HIGH according to NVD's assessment, with a vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability can cause a runtime crash and lead to a denial of service condition, potentially affecting the availability of systems using the affected PaddlePaddle versions (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in commit 41eda9080b12e6f1b3a49cdc8439a1b9f1ed6794 and the fix is included in PaddlePaddle version 2.6.0. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to address the vulnerability (Paddle Advisory).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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