New R Programming Vulnerability Exposes Projects to Supply Chain Attacks

A security vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that could be exploited by a threat actor to create a malicious RDS (R Data Serialization) file such that it results in code execution when loaded and referenced.
The flaw, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-27322 (CVSS score: 8.8), “involves the use of promise objects and lazy evaluation in R,” AI application