CVE-2025-71463

medium

Description

Scapy before 2.7.0 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in the load_session function that allows attackers to execute code by supplying a malicious pickle session file. Attackers can trick users into loading a crafted .pkl.gz file via the -s option or conf.session, executing embedded Python code through __reduce__().

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/scapy-before-2.7.0-insecure-deserialization-rce-via-session-files

https://github.com/secdev/scapy/security/advisories/GHSA-cq46-m9x9-j8w2

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-211318

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-11-13

Updated: 2026-11-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00242