Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting picklescan package, versions [,0.0.31)
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- published14 Sept 2025
- disclosed10 Sept 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 10 Sep 2025
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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 _unsafe_globals check. An attacker can bypass detection of malicious content by crafting malicious pickle payloads that use subclasses of dangerous imports instead of the exact module names.