picklescan – Remote Code Execution via idlelib.autocomplete.AutoComplete.get_entity_CVE-2025-71358

7.6 / 10

HIGH

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

Description

picklescan before 0.0.29 fails to detect malicious pickle files that exploit idlelib.autocomplete.AutoComplete.get_entity function in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected code in pickle files that executes arbitrary commands when loaded by victims using pickle.load().

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-71358

Source VulnCheck

Published Jun 22, 2026 at 21:04

Affected Product

Vendor picklescan

Product picklescan

Affected Versions picklescan picklescan 0

CWE Classification

CWE-502

References

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