CVE-2026-53872

picklescan - Arbitrary File Read via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Jun 17, 2026
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
Reserved
Jun 10, 2026

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Description

picklescan before 0.0.35 contains an unsafe pickle deserialization vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary server files by chaining io.FileIO and urllib.request.urlopen. Attackers can bypass RCE-focused blocklists to exfiltrate sensitive data like /etc/passwd to external servers.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
picklescanpicklescan
  • before 0.0.35Affected
  • 0.0.35Not affected

References

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