CVE-2025-71342

picklescan - Undetected Remote Code Execution via idlelib.run.Executive.runcode

State: Published
Severity: 7.6 High
Published: Jul 4, 2026
Updated: Jul 6, 2026
Reserved: Jun 20, 2026

Description

picklescan before 0.0.30 fails to detect malicious pickle files using idlelib.run.Executive.runcode in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected code in pickle files that executes during pickle.load, enabling remote code execution in PyTorch models and supply chain attacks.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

Product	Versions
picklescanpicklescan	before 0.0.30Affected 0.0.30Not affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-m869-42cg-3xwr)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: picklescan - Undetected Remote Code Execution via idlelib.run.Executive.runcodethird-party-advisory

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