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SCA: security update for picklescan (GHSA-f7qq-56ww-84cr)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435251

Description

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

 - A Protection Mechanism Failure vulnerability in mmaitre314 picklescan versions up to and including 0.0.30
 allows a remote attacker to bypass the unsafe globals check. This is possible because the scanner performs
 an exact match for module names, allowing malicious payloads to be loaded via submodules of dangerous
 packages (e.g., 'asyncio.unix_events' instead of 'asyncio'). When the incorrectly considered safe file is
 loaded after scan, it can lead to the execution of malicious code. (CVE-2025-10157)

Solution

Update the picklescan library and its related packages to version 0.0.31 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f7qq-56ww-84cr

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 435251

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/10/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-10157

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-10157

cwe: CWE-693