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PyTorch Model Server Registration and Deserialization RCE

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PyTorch Model Server Registration and Deserialization RCE

Disclosed
10/03/2023
Created
10/12/2023

Description

The PyTorch model server contains multiple vulnerabilities that can be chained together to permit an unauthenticated remote attacker arbitrary Java code execution. The first vulnerability is that the management interface is bound to all IP addresses and not just the loop back interface as the documentation suggests. The second vulnerability (CVE-2023-43654) allows attackers with access to the management interface to register MAR model files from arbitrary servers. The third vulnerability is that when an MAR file is loaded, it can contain a YAML configuration file that when deserialized by snakeyaml, can lead to loading an arbitrary Java class.

Author(s)

  • Idan Levcovich
  • Guy Kaplan
  • Gal Elbaz
  • Swapneil Kumar Dash
  • Spencer McIntyre

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/multi/http/torchserver_cve_2023_43654
msf exploit(torchserver_cve_2023_43654) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(torchserver_cve_2023_43654) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(torchserver_cve_2023_43654) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(torchserver_cve_2023_43654) > exploit

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