CVE-2025-71364: Picklescan

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

picklescan before 0.0.30 fails to detect the asyncio.unix_events._UnixSubprocessTransport._start function in pickle reduce methods, allowing remote code execution. Attackers can craft malicious pickle files embedding this built-in function that evade detection but execute arbitrary commands when loaded.

Affected products

• Picklescan Picklescan: before 0.0.30 (fixed in 0.0.30)

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