CVE-2025-71343

high

Description

picklescan before 0.0.30 fails to detect malicious pickle files that exploit lib2to3.pgen2.pgen.ParserGenerator.make_label function in the reduce method. Attackers can craft malicious pickle files with embedded code that evades detection but executes arbitrary commands when pickle.load() is called.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/picklescan-arbitrary-code-execution-via-lib2to3-pgen2-pgen-parsergenerator-make-label-detection-bypass

https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-p9w7-82w4-7q8m

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-04

Updated: 2026-07-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High