Picklescan up to 0.0.24 incomplete blacklist

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A vulnerability was found in Picklescan up to 0.0.24. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to incomplete blacklist. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-71355. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Picklescan up to 0.0.24. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a incomplete blacklist vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-184. The product implements a protection mechanism that relies on a list of inputs (or properties of inputs) that are not allowed by policy or otherwise require other action to neutralize before additional processing takes place, but the list is incomplete, leading to resultant weaknesses. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Picklescan before 0.0.25 fails to detect unsafe global functions in the Numpy library, allowing attackers to bypass static analysis and execute arbitrary code during deserialization. Attackers can craft malicious pickle files using numpy.testing._private.utils.runstring within the reduce method to import dangerous libraries like os and execute arbitrary OS commands when the pickle file is loaded.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-71355 since 06/20/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1562.006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.0.25 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

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