High CVSS 8.1
CVE-2025-71362
picklescan before 0.0.33 fails to detect unsafe deserialization when numpy.f2py.crackfortran functions call eval on arbitrary strings. Attackers can embed malicious code in pickle files that executes when loaded from untrusted sources.
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.