RELATE Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via Insecure Celery Pickle Deserialization
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-502.
Summary
RELATE is a web-based courseware package. Prior to commit d66ba5659b459bf1ba56b7109b5f9ecf197cbefb, RELATE LMS configures its Celery workers to accept and deserialize untrusted 'pickle' data. An attacker who can reach the message broker can execute arbitrary commands on the host server. Combined with missing network isolation in the code execution sandbox, this allows an authenticated student to achieve full Remote Code Execution (RCE) on the host system. Commit d66ba5659b459bf1ba56b7109b5f9ecf197cbefb fixes the issue.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-47161
- 2026-10-25 EPSS moved to the below the 50th percentile
- 2026-10-27 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
More inducer vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-21319 Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) vulnerability in inducer relate before v.2024.1… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2024-21317 Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) vulnerability in inducer relate before v.2024.1… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0
- TI-2024-21320 An issue in inducer relate before v.2024.1 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-30141 RELATE: Timing Attack Vulnerability in course/auth.py — check_sign_in_key() CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.0
- TI-2026-30518 RELATE Vulnerable to Stored XSS via Unprivileged User Profile CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-30090 RELATE: Predictable Token Generation in auth.py and exam.py CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7
Sources
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