CVE-2023-47248

CVE-2023-47248: PyArrow, PyArrow: Arbitrary code execution when loading a malicious data file

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product PyArrow
Weakness CWE-502 · Unsafe deserialization
Published November 9, 2023
Last update February 13, 2025

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

Deserialization of untrusted data in IPC and Parquet readers in PyArrow versions 0.14.0 to 14.0.0 allows arbitrary code execution. An application is vulnerable if it reads Arrow IPC, Feather or Parquet data from untrusted sources (for example user-supplied input files). This vulnerability only affects PyArrow, not other Apache Arrow implementations or bindings. It is recommended that users of PyArrow upgrade to 14.0.1. Similarly, it is recommended that downstream libraries upgrade their dependency requirements to PyArrow 14.0.1 or later. PyPI packages are already available, and we hope that conda-forge packages will be available soon. If it is not possible to upgrade, we provide a separate package `pyarrow-hotfix` that disables the vulnerability on older PyArrow versions. See https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow-hotfix/ for instructions.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 9, 2023 CVE published
February 13, 2025 Record updated

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