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SCA: security update for pypickle (GHSA-5qwj-342r-h886)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 427750

Description

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

 - A vulnerability was found in erdogant pypickle up to 1.1.5 and classified as problematic. Affected by this
 issue is the function load of the file pypickle/pypickle.py. The manipulation leads to deserialization.
 Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be
 used. Upgrading to version 2.0.0 is able to address this issue. The patch is identified as
 14b4cae704a0bb4eb6723e238f25382d847a1917. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
 (CVE-2025-5174)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5qwj-342r-h886

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427750

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5174

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5174