CVE-2026-22608

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
trailofbitsfickling< 0.1.7affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-184: CWE-184: Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs
  • CWE-502: CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: total

Additional References

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