Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs Affecting picklescan package, versions [,1.0.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PICKLESCAN-15435869
  • published6 Mar 2026
  • disclosed3 Mar 2026
  • creditYash Rajesh Chhabria

Introduced: 3 Mar 2026

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-184  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade picklescan to version 1.0.4 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs in the _unsafe_globals() function. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious pickle that invokes profile.run() and achieves code execution through exec() while bypassing the intended blocklist.

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CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1