picklescan up to 0.0.27 deserialization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in picklescan up to 0.0.27. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this issue is the function torch.utils.data.datapipes.utils.decoder.basichandlers. Such manipulation leads to deserialization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-71369. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in picklescan up to 0.0.27. Affected by this issue is the function torch.utils.data.datapipes.utils.decoder.basichandlers. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

picklescan before 0.0.28 fails to detect malicious pickle files that use torch.utils.data.datapipes.utils.decoder.basichandlers in reduce methods, allowing attackers to bypass safety checks. Remote attackers can embed undetected malicious code in pickle files that executes during deserialization, enabling remote code execution.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-71369 since 06/20/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 0.0.28 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-210422). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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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
• 0.0.27

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