CVE-2026-22608 | THREATINT

Description

Fickling is a Python pickling decompiler and static analyzer. Prior to version 0.1.7, both ctypes and pydoc modules aren't explicitly blocked. Even other existing pickle scanning tools (like picklescan) do not block pydoc.locate. Chaining these two together can achieve RCE while the scanner still reports the file as LIKELY_SAFE. This issue has been patched in version 0.1.7.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-07 | Published 2026-01-10 | Updated 2026-01-13 | Assigner GitHub_M

HIGH: 8.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Problem types

CWE-184: Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Product status

< 0.1.7

affected

References

github.com/...ckling/security/advisories/GHSA-5hvc-6wx8-mvv4 exploit

github.com/...ckling/security/advisories/GHSA-5hvc-6wx8-mvv4

github.com/...ommit/b793563e60a5e039c5837b09d7f4f6b92e6040d1

github.com/trailofbits/fickling/releases/tag/v0.1.7

cve.org (CVE-2026-22608)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-22608)

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