CVE-2023-47248 (GCVE-0-2023-47248)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-09 08:17 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:17- CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | PyArrow |
Affected:
0.14.0 , ≤ 14.0.0
(semver)
|
guessed |
Shadowserver
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Characteristics
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Honeypot
Signal: In The Wild Attempts
Confidence: 70%
Source: shadowserver
Details
| 1D | 1 |
|---|---|
| Iot | no |
| Feed | Shadowserver Foundation honeypot/exploited-vulnerabilities |
| Type | http-scan |
| Class | other-software |
| 7D Avg | 0 |
| Vendor | Apache |
| 30D Avg | 1 |
| 90D Avg | 2 |
| Product | Arrow |
| Cisa Kev | no |
| Connections | 1 |
| Observation Date | 2026-07-19 |
| Vulnerability Class | CVSS |
| Vulnerability Score | 9.8 |
| Vulnerability Severity | Critical |
References
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 70%
Source: kevintel
Details
| Feed | KEVIntel (kevintel.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | PyArrow, PyArrow: Arbitrary code execution when loading a malicious data file |
| Vendor | Apache Software Foundation |
| Product | PyArrow |
| Added Date | 2025-06-09T00:00:00.000Z |
| Cvss Score | 9.8 |
| Epss Score | None |
| Cvss Severity | CRITICAL |
| Epss Percentile | None |
| Used In Malware | unknown |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev | None |
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | True |
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"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2023-47248.json",
"version": "14"
}
}
}
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.