CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-71360

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in picklescan before version 0.0.29 fails to detect malicious pickle files using the idlelib.calltip.get_entity function in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected code in pickle files that executes remote commands when loaded by victims.

Risk Assessment

The organization is at risk of remote code execution (RCE) when processing malicious pickle files, potentially leading to system compromise, data theft, or further attack propagation.

Recommendation

Immediately update picklescan to version 0.0.29 or later. Additionally, consider restricting the loading of pickle files from untrusted sources and using alternative deserialization methods.

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Original NVD description (English source)

picklescan before 0.0.29 fails to detect malicious pickle files using idlelib.calltip.get_entity function in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected code in pickle files that executes remote commands when loaded by victims.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS