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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-06-20 | Published 2026-07-04 | Updated 2026-07-07 | Assigner VulnCheck




HIGH: 7.6CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
HIGH: 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Problem types

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 0.0.29
affected

0.0.29 (semver)
unaffected

Credits

FredericDT reporter

References

github.com/...lescan/security/advisories/GHSA-9xph-j2h6-g47v exploit

github.com/...lescan/security/advisories/GHSA-9xph-j2h6-g47v (GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-9xph-j2h6-g47v)) vendor-advisory

www.vulncheck.com/...a-undetected-idlelib-calltip-get-entity (VulnCheck Advisory: picklescan - Remote Code Execution via Undetected idlelib.calltip.get_entity) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-71360)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-71360)

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