picklescan - Arbitrary File Read via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization
Priority HIGH 77CWE-22Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-22 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
picklescan before 0.0.35 contains an unsafe pickle deserialization vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary server files by chaining io.FileIO and urllib.request.urlopen. Attackers can bypass RCE-focused blocklists to exfiltrate sensitive data like /etc/passwd to external servers.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00509 43rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed picklescan (picklescan): 0.0.35picklescan (PyPI): 0.0.35
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| picklescan | picklescan | before 0.0.35 | 0.0.35 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | picklescan (PyPI) | before 0.0.35 | 0.0.35 | Patch available | GHSA-9726-w42j-3qjr |
- picklescan Vendorpicklescan Affected before 0.0.35 Fixed in 0.0.35 Patch available CNA
- picklescan (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 0.0.35 Fixed in 0.0.35 Patch available GHSA-9726-w42j-3qjr
CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1
Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:mmaitre314:picklescan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | picklescan |
- cpe:2.3:a:mmaitre314:picklescan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·picklescan
Remediation
- Fix · CNA picklescan (picklescan) Fixed in 0.0.35
- Fix · GHSA-9726-w42j-3qjr picklescan (PyPI) Fixed in 0.0.35 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-53872
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-9726-w42j-3qjr
- 2026-10-25 EPSS moved to the below the 50th percentile
References
Advisory 2
More picklescan vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-03009 picklescan - Universal Blocklist Bypass via pkgutil.resolve_name CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-40680 picklescan - Remote Code Execution via Unblocked Standard Library Modules CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-38870 picklescan - Arbitrary Code Execution via Obfuscated eval Call CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-38869 picklescan - Arbitrary Code Execution via profile.run() Blocklist Bypass CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2025-43446 picklescan - Detection Bypass via STACK_GLOBAL Opcode Parsing Logic Flaw CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2025-43444 picklescan - Remote Code Execution via Unblocked ctypes Module CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-53872 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-53872 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-9726-w42j-3qjr · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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