Eval Injection Affecting picklescan package, versions [,0.0.29)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PICKLESCAN-17661044
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed24 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jun 2026

CVE-2025-71361  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-95  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade picklescan to version 0.0.29 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Eval Injection via the fetch_tip function. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by embedding malicious payloads in pickle files that are loaded using pickle.load().

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1