CVE-2022-21797
Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—
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.
CVSS
- Version: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Base score: 9.8
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 2.61%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 85
- Score date: 10/6/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (3)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
- CWE-94
References
- https://github.com/joblib/joblib/commit/b90f10efeb670a2cc877fb88ebb3f2019189e059
- https://github.com/joblib/joblib/issues/1128
- https://github.com/joblib/joblib/pull/1321
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00027.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BVOMMW37OXZWU2EV5ONAAS462IQEHZOF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MJ5XTJS6OKJRRVXWFN5J67K3BYPEOBDF/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-01
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-JOBLIB-3027033
- https://github.com/joblib/joblib/commit/b90f10efeb670a2cc877fb88ebb3f2019189e059
- https://github.com/joblib/joblib/issues/1128
- https://github.com/joblib/joblib/pull/1321
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00027.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BVOMMW37OXZWU2EV5ONAAS462IQEHZOF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MJ5XTJS6OKJRRVXWFN5J67K3BYPEOBDF/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-01
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-JOBLIB-3027033
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