Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting picklescan package, versions [,0.0.31)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PICKLESCAN-12668889
  • published14 Sept 2025
  • disclosed10 Sept 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Sep 2025

NewCVE-2025-10155  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade picklescan to version 0.0.31 or higher.

Overview

picklescan is a Security scanner detecting Python Pickle files performing suspicious actions

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure via the scan_bytes function. An attacker can bypass detection of malicious content by disguising a standard pickle file with a PyTorch-related extension, causing the scanner to fail to analyze the file as a pickle.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1