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SCA: security update for picklescan (GHSA-9gvj-pp9x-gcfr)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433309

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - picklescan before 0.0.27 contains a parsing logic error in the _list_globals function when handling
 STACK_GLOBAL opcodes, failing to track arguments in the correct range and allowing malicious pickle files
 to bypass detection. Attackers can craft pickle files with arguments at position zero to trigger
 unexpected exceptions and evade security scanning. (CVE-2025-71325)

Solution

Update the picklescan library and its related packages to version 0.0.27 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9gvj-pp9x-gcfr

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433309

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/12/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.96

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-71325

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-71325

cwe: CWE-502