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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.7 High

CVE-2026-53872

picklescan - Arbitrary File Read via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization

Description

picklescan before 0.0.35 contains an unsafe pickle deserialization vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary server files by chaining io.FileIO and urllib.request.urlopen. Attackers can bypass RCE-focused blocklists to exfiltrate sensitive data like /etc/passwd to external servers.

Affected products

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

picklescan picklescan

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 0.0.35affected
  • 0.0.35unaffected
pkg:pypi/picklescan

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