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SCA: security update for picklescan (GHSA-6w4w-5w54-rjvr)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435119

Description

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

 - picklescan before 0.0.29 fails to detect malicious pickle files that exploit
 idlelib.autocomplete.AutoComplete.get_entity function in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected
 code in pickle files that executes arbitrary commands when loaded by victims using pickle.load().
 (CVE-2025-71358)

Solution

Update the picklescan library and its related packages to version 0.0.29 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6w4w-5w54-rjvr

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435119

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/27/2025

Updated: 7/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.62

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-71358

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Threat Score: 4.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-71358