CVE-2025-71358

picklescan - Remote Code Execution via idlelib.autocomplete.AutoComplete.get_entity

State: Published
Severity: 7.6 High
Published: Jun 22, 2026
Updated: Jun 23, 2026
Reserved: Jun 20, 2026

Description

picklescan before 0.0.29 fails to detect malicious pickle files that exploit idlelib.autocomplete.AutoComplete.get_entity function in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected code in pickle files that executes arbitrary commands when loaded by victims using pickle.load().

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 0.0.29Affected 0.0.29Not affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-6w4w-5w54-rjvr)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: picklescan - Remote Code Execution via idlelib.autocomplete.AutoComplete.get_entitythird-party-advisory

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