{"id":27509,"date":"2025-04-20T01:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T01:20:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-25T00:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T00:18:25","slug":"cve-2023-52304-stack-overflow-vulnerability-in-paddlepaddle-leading-to-potential-system-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-52304-stack-overflow-vulnerability-in-paddlepaddle-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2023-52304: Stack Overflow Vulnerability in PaddlePaddle leading to Potential System Compromise<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE-2023-52304 is a critical security flaw found in PaddlePaddle, a widely deployed deep learning platform. This vulnerability, identified as a stack overflow in the paddle.searchsorted function, affects all versions of PaddlePaddle prior to 2.6.0 and can lead to severe consequences, such as a denial of service or even system compromise. Its severity and the widespread use of the affected software make it a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/exaforce-s-75-million-fundraise-a-significant-move-in-the-cybersecurity-industry\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"32758\">significant concern for cybersecurity<\/a> professionals and organizations alike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2023-52304<br \/>\nSeverity: High (8.2 CVSS Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Remote<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: Denial of Service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-33114-npu-memory-corruption-leading-to-potential-system-compromise-or-data-leakage\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"31851\">Potential System Compromise<\/a>, Data Leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3190450271\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 720px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center; letter-spacing: -0.02em;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 10px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 42px; height: 42px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    Share secrets securely\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 14px; color: #d1d5db;\">\r\n    Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 18px; color: #a1a1aa;\">\r\n    Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #e4e4e7;\">\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Private Spaces for organizations and teams<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, files, and notes<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Sensitive AI work and protected collaboration<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Built for information that cannot leak<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #ffffff;\">\r\n    Our mission is to secure human work alongside AI.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Download Ameeba\r\n    <\/a>\r\n\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Learn More\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>PaddlePaddle | Before 2.6.0<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32681-blind-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-wp-guru-error-log-viewer\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"33346\">vulnerability is caused due to an error<\/a> in the handling of the paddle.searchsorted function in PaddlePaddle. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-52307-high-severity-stack-overflow-vulnerability-in-paddlepaddle-prior-to-version-2-6-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"33921\">stack overflow<\/a> error can be exploited by a remote attacker by sending a specially crafted input to the function. This can cause the system to crash, leading to a denial of service, or it can allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code, which can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-58136-critical-vulnerability-in-yii-2-framework-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"31692\">potentially compromise the entire system or lead<\/a> to data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1655475892\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is a conceptual example of how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-50123-exploitable-vulnerability-in-hozard-alarm-system-sms-authentication\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"34913\">vulnerability might be exploited<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">import paddle\n# create a tensor with malicious values\nmalicious_tensor = paddle.to_tensor([float(&#039;inf&#039;), float(&#039;nan&#039;), float(&#039;inf&#039;), ...])\n# use paddle.searchsorted function with the malicious tensor\nresult = paddle.searchsorted(malicious_tensor, value)<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the malicious tensor, when passed to the paddle.searchsorted function, could trigger the stack overflow, causing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-29017-remote-code-execution-in-code-astro-internet-banking-system-2-0-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"32835\">system to crash or even execute arbitrary code<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation Guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Users are strongly advised to upgrade to PaddlePaddle version 2.6.0 or later, where this vulnerability has been fixed. If upgrading is not immediately possible, users can use a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) as a temporary mitigation to detect and prevent exploitation attempts. However, these are only stopgap measures and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-46490-puzzling-vulnerability-in-crossword-compiler-puzzles-risks-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"54579\">system is still at risk<\/a> until the software is updated. Regular patching and updates are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-21737-critical-sap-application-interface-framework-file-adapter-vulnerability-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"31883\">critical to maintaining a secure system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview CVE-2023-52304 is a critical security flaw found in PaddlePaddle, a widely deployed deep learning platform. This vulnerability, identified as a stack overflow in the paddle.searchsorted function, affects all versions of PaddlePaddle prior to 2.6.0 and can lead to severe consequences, such as a denial of service or even system compromise. Its severity and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[86,87],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-27509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","attack_vector-buffer-overflow","attack_vector-dos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27509"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48745,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions\/48745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=27509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}