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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2025-1945

picklescan - Zip Flag Bit Exploit Crashes Picklescan But Not PyTorch

Description

picklescan before 0.0.23 fails to detect malicious pickle files inside PyTorch model archives when certain ZIP file flag bits are modified. By flipping specific bits in the ZIP file headers, an attacker can embed malicious pickle files that remain undetected by PickleScan while still being successfully loaded by PyTorch's torch.load(). This can lead to arbitrary code execution when loading a compromised model.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

mmaitre314 picklescan

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0.0.1 to < 0.0.23affected

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