highCVSS 7.5Vulnerability
GHSA-5v23-73v4-w2fp
### Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-9726-w42j-3qjr. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ### Original Description picklescan before 0.0.35 contains an unsafe pickle deserialization vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary server files by chaining io.FileIO and urllib.request.urlopen. Attackers can bypass RCE-focused blocklists to exfiltrate sensitive data like /etc/passwd to external servers.
Properties
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-5v23-73v4-w2fp
- summary
- Duplicate Advisory: picklescan has Arbitrary file read using `io.FileIO`
- severity
- high
- cvss_score
- 7.5
- cve_id
- GHSA-5v23-73v4-w2fp
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- is_ghsa_only
- true
- ghsa_published
- 2026-06-17T18:35:57Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5v23-73v4-w2fp
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-06-18T14:46:11Z
Related Entities (4)
REPORTED_BY (1)
→[Source]GitHub Advisory Database
VULNERABLE_TO (1)
←[Software]pip/picklescan
AFFECTS (1)
→[Software]pip/picklescan
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
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