CVE-2022-21797Arbitrary Code Execution
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
The package joblib from 0 and before 1.2.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via the pre_dispatch flag in Parallel() class due to the eval() statement.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 24 months later
· 24 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 14% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
joblib
- affected < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < 1.2.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIjoblibGHSA-6hrg-qmvc-2xh8 (opens in a new tab)
References
References9
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-JOBLIB-3027033 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/joblib/joblib/commit/b90f10efeb670a2cc877fb88ebb3f2019189e059 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/joblib/joblib/issues/1128 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/joblib/joblib/pull/1321 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-c0bfe37ae5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-c83ce1c000 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20221117 [SECURITY] [DLA 3193-1] joblib security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230330 [SECURITY] [DLA 3193-2] joblib security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- GLSA-202401-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-0128 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6hrg-qmvc-2xh8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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