CVE-2025-71368: Picklescan

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

picklescan before 0.0.30 fails to detect the doctest.debug_script function when analyzing pickle files, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code. Remote attackers can craft malicious pickle files embedding doctest.debug_script calls that bypass picklescan detection and execute arbitrary commands upon pickle.load invocation.

Affected products

• Picklescan Picklescan: before 0.0.30 (fixed in 0.0.30)

Published 2026-06-30. Last modified 2026-10-05.