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SCA: security update for fickling (GHSA-5hvc-6wx8-mvv4)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 436667

Description

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

 - Fickling is a Python pickling decompiler and static analyzer. Prior to version 0.1.7, both ctypes and
 pydoc modules aren't explicitly blocked. Even other existing pickle scanning tools (like picklescan) do
 not block pydoc.locate. Chaining these two together can achieve RCE while the scanner still reports the
 file as LIKELY_SAFE. This issue has been patched in version 0.1.7. (CVE-2026-22608)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5hvc-6wx8-mvv4

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 436667

Version: Revision 1.12

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/11/2026

Updated: 7/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.88

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-22608

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-22608