Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-53874

picklescan picklescan

picklescan - Arbitrary Code Execution via Obfuscated eval Call

CVSS 4.0
9.3Critical

Official description

picklescan before 1.0.1 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability allowing unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code by hiding eval calls nested under callable objects via getattr. Attackers can embed malicious code in pickle files that evades detection but executes when the pickle is loaded from untrusted sources.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
9.3Critical 4.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (VulnCheck) 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
9.8Critical 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (VulnCheck) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
picklescan picklescan v < 1.0.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

2
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Details

Published
2026-06-17
Last updated
2026-11-08
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
VulnCheck

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.51%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
44.3%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
Proof of concept
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-502
    Deserialization of Untrusted Data