GHSA-g82g-j283-hj97CriticalCVSS 9.8

imgaug contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in BackgroundAugmenter class within multicore.py module

Published
May 12, 2026
Last Modified
May 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The imgaug library thru 0.4.0 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in its BackgroundAugmenter class within the multicore.py module. The class uses Python's pickle module to deserialize data received via a multiprocessing queue in the _augment_images_worker() method without any safety checks. An attacker who can influence the data placed into this queue (e.g., through social engineering, malicious input scripts, or a compromised shared queue) can provide a malicious pickle payload. When deserialized, this payload can execute arbitrary code in the context of the worker process, leading to remote or local code execution depending on the deployment scenario.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/imgaug:<= 0.4.0

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