PT-2026-55666

CVE-2025-71342

Published

2025-08-26

Updated

2026-10-12

Description by

CVSS 3.1

8.1

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions picklescan versions prior to 0.0.30

Description The software fails to detect malicious pickle files that utilize the runcode function within the idlelib.run.Executive class inside reduce methods. This allows attackers to embed hidden code in pickle files that executes during the pickle.load process, potentially leading to remote code execution in PyTorch models and facilitating supply chain attacks.

Recommendations Update to version 0.0.30 or later.

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Weakness enumeration

CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Related identifiers

CVE-2025-71342