Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) Affecting picklescan package, versions [,0.0.35)
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- published9 Jan 2026
- disclosed8 Jan 2026
- creditShivasurya
Introduced: 8 Jan 2026
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade picklescan to version 0.0.35 or higher.
Overview
picklescan is a Security scanner detecting Python Pickle files performing suspicious actions
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) via the io.FileIO() and urllib.request.urlopen() functions chaining. An attacker can access arbitrary files on the server and exfiltrate their contents to an external location by submitting specially crafted pickle data that leverages io.FileIO and urllib.request.urlopen.