Reliance on File Name or Extension of Externally-Supplied File Affecting picklescan package, versions [,0.0.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PICKLESCAN-9056215
  • published4 Mar 2025
  • disclosed3 Mar 2025
  • creditTrevor Madge

Introduced: 3 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2025-1889  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-646  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade picklescan to version 0.0.22 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Reliance on File Name or Extension of Externally-Supplied File due to insufficient scanning of non-standard pickle file extensions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1