CVE-2025-71340

Summary

picklescan through 0.0.26 fails to detect malicious pickle files that invoke idlelib.pyshell.ModifiedInterpreter.runcode in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected code in pickle files that executes arbitrary commands when the file is loaded via pickle.load(), enabling supply chain attacks on PyTorch models and saved Python objects. This is fixed in version 0.0.30.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
picklescanpicklescan0 <= 0.0.26affected
picklescanpicklescan0.0.30unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

Additional References

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