CVE-2025-71361: 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 idlelib.calltip.Calltip.fetch_tip calls in pickle files, allowing remote code execution. Attackers can embed undetected payloads in pickle files that execute arbitrary code when loaded via pickle.load().

Affected products

• Picklescan Picklescan: before 0.0.29 (fixed in 0.0.29)

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