High CVSS 8.1
CVE-2025-71343
picklescan before 0.0.30 fails to detect malicious pickle files that exploit lib2to3.pgen2.pgen.ParserGenerator.make_label function in the reduce method. Attackers can craft malicious pickle files with embedded code that evades detection but executes arbitrary commands when pickle.load() is called.
What this means
- Exposure
- Exploitable remotely over the network and without authentication — but only if a user opens booby-trapped content.
- Impact
- An attacker can read sensitive data and modify or destroy data.
- Weakness
- The application rebuilds an object from attacker-controlled data, which often leads to code execution.
- Likelihood
- Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.
What to doFold into the next patch cycle.
Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.