picklescan up to 0.0.26 _list_globals error condition

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in picklescan up to 0.0.26. Affected is the function _list_globals. Performing a manipulation results in error condition. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-71325. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in picklescan up to 0.0.26. This affects the function _list_globals. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a error condition vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-391. [PLANNED FOR DEPRECATION. SEE MAINTENANCE NOTES AND CONSIDER CWE-252, CWE-248, OR CWE-1069.] Ignoring exceptions and other error conditions may allow an attacker to induce unexpected behavior unnoticed. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

picklescan before 0.0.27 contains a parsing logic error in the _list_globals function when handling STACK_GLOBAL opcodes, failing to track arguments in the correct range and allowing malicious pickle files to bypass detection. Attackers can craft pickle files with arguments at position zero to trigger unexpected exceptions and evade security scanning.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-71325 since 06/08/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 0.0.27 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• picklescan

Version

• 0.0.1
• 0.0.2
• 0.0.3
• 0.0.4
• 0.0.5
• 0.0.6
• 0.0.7
• 0.0.8
• 0.0.9
• 0.0.10
• 0.0.11
• 0.0.12
• 0.0.13
• 0.0.14
• 0.0.15
• 0.0.16
• 0.0.17
• 0.0.18
• 0.0.19
• 0.0.20
• 0.0.21
• 0.0.22
• 0.0.23
• 0.0.24
• 0.0.25
• 0.0.26

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