Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs Affecting picklescan package, versions [,0.0.21)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PICKLESCAN-8749609
  • published26 Feb 2025
  • disclosed26 Feb 2025
  • creditTrevor Madge

Introduced: 26 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2025-1716  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-184  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade picklescan to version 0.0.21 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 which does not include pip under _unsafe_globals in scanner.py. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by loading a malicious model using pip.main(), which relies on pickle for deserialization.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1