CVE-2025-71375 (GCVE-0-2025-71375)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-04 01:23 – Updated: 2026-07-04 01:23
VLAI
Title
picklescan - Undetected Remote Code Execution via _operator.methodcaller
Summary
picklescan before 0.0.34 fails to detect the _operator.methodcaller built-in function when scanning pickle files for malicious code. Attackers can craft malicious pickle payloads using _operator.methodcaller that evade detection and execute arbitrary code when loaded by pickle.load().
Severity
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
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
picklescan picklescan Affected: 0 , < 0.0.34 (semver)
Unaffected: 0.0.34 (semver)
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Date Public
2025-12-27 00:00
Credits
CoolwindHF
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