Permissive List of Allowed Inputs Affecting picklescan package, versions [,1.0.4)
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- published6 Mar 2026
- disclosed3 Mar 2026
- creditYash Rajesh Chhabria
Introduced: 3 Mar 2026
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-183 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
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 Permissive List of Allowed Inputs in the _unsafe_globals() function that does not block pkgutil.resolve_name() Python stdlib function. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by crafting a pickle payload that uses pkgutil.resolve_name() to access and invoke blocked or dangerous functions, bypassing the intended blocklist protections.