picklescan up to 0.0.28 Autocomplete pickle.load deserialization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in picklescan up to 0.0.28. This impacts the function pickle.load of the component Autocomplete Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to deserialization. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-71358. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in picklescan up to 0.0.28. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function pickle.load of the component Autocomplete Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

picklescan before 0.0.29 fails to detect malicious pickle files that exploit idlelib.autocomplete.AutoComplete.get_entity function in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected code in pickle files that executes arbitrary commands when loaded by victims using pickle.load().

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-71358 since 06/20/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 0.0.29 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• picklescan

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• 0.0.1
• 0.0.2
• 0.0.3
• 0.0.4
• 0.0.5
• 0.0.6
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• 0.0.14
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• 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
• 0.0.27
• 0.0.28

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