CVE-2025-71354: Picklescan

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

picklescan before 0.0.29 fails to detect malicious pickle files that exploit idlelib.debugobj.ObjectTreeItem.SetText function in reduce methods. Attackers can craft pickle files with embedded code that bypasses picklescan detection and executes arbitrary commands when pickle.load() is called.

Affected products

• Picklescan Picklescan: before 0.0.29 (fixed in 0.0.29)

Published 2026-06-24. Last modified 2026-10-05.