CVE-2020-13092: Scikit-Learn

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

scikit-learn (aka sklearn) through 0.23.0 can unserialize and execute commands from an untrusted file that is passed to the joblib.load() function, if __reduce__ makes an os.system call. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue because the joblib.load() function is documented as unsafe and it is the user's responsibility to use the function in a secure manner

Affected products

• Scikit-Learn Scikit-Learn: up to and including 0.23.0

Published 2020-05-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.