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SCA: security update for picklescan (GHSA-9726-w42j-3qjr)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 436618

Description

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

 - picklescan before 0.0.35 contains an unsafe pickle deserialization vulnerability allowing unauthenticated
 attackers to read arbitrary server files by chaining io.FileIO and urllib.request.urlopen. Attackers can
 bypass RCE-focused blocklists to exfiltrate sensitive data like /etc/passwd to external servers.
 (CVE-2026-53872)

Solution

Update the picklescan library and its related packages to version 0.0.35 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9726-w42j-3qjr

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 436618

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/8/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-53872

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-53872