Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-24040 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Facebook Parlai

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
facebook
CWE-502
critical

Summary

Due to use of unsafe YAML deserialization logic, an attacker with the ability to modify local YAML configuration files could provide malicious input, resulting in remote code execution or similar risks. This issue affects ParlAI prior to v1.1.0.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)