GHSA-fq92-qc8f-482vHighCVSS 8.8

Snorkel BaseLabeler.load uses an unsafe pickle.load

Published
May 12, 2026
Last Modified
May 18, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The snorkel library thru v0.10.0 contains a critical insecure deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) in the BaseLabeler.load() method of the BaseLabeler class. The method loads serialized labeler models using the unsafe pickle.load() function on user-supplied file paths without any validation or security controls. Python's pickle module is inherently dangerous for deserializing untrusted data, as it can execute arbitrary code during the deserialization process. A remote attacker can exploit this by providing a maliciously crafted pickle file, leading to arbitrary code execution on the victim's system when the file is loaded via the vulnerable method.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/snorkel:<= 0.10.0

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