June 14, 2024 at 03:00AM
A Protect AI report has revealed a dozen critical vulnerabilities in open-source AI/ML tools, including issues that could lead to information exposure, privilege escalation, and server takeover. The most severe is CVE-2024-22476 in Intel Neural Compressor, allowing remote privilege escalation. The report emphasizes timely reporting to maintainers for fixes. Various high-severity vulnerabilities were also reported.
Based on the meeting notes, here are the key takeaways:
1. A Protect AI report highlighted a total of 32 security defects, including critical-severity issues in various open source AI/ML tools.
2. The most severe bug is CVE-2024-22476 in Intel Neural Compressor software, with a CVSS score of 10, allowing remote attackers to escalate privileges. This flaw was addressed in mid-May.
3. Multiple critical-severity vulnerabilities were discovered in ChuanhuChatGPT, LoLLMs, Qdrant, and Lunary, posing risks such as stealing sensitive files, arbitrary file reading, and unauthorized access.
4. Other critical-severity flaws include SSRF, IDOR, missing authorization and authentication mechanisms, improper path sanitization, path traversal, and log injection in various AI/ML platforms.
5. Protect AI reported that all vulnerabilities were disclosed to the maintainers at least 45 days before publication, and they continue to collaborate for timely fixes.
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