CVE-2025-71342: Picklescan

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

picklescan before 0.0.30 fails to detect malicious pickle files using idlelib.run.Executive.runcode in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected code in pickle files that executes during pickle.load, enabling remote code execution in PyTorch models and supply chain attacks.

Affected products

• Picklescan Picklescan: before 0.0.30 (fixed in 0.0.30)

Published 2026-07-04. Last modified 2026-10-05.