CVE-2025-1716

picklescan before 0.0.21 does not treat 'pip' as an unsafe global. An attacker could craft a malicious model that uses Pickle to pull in a malicious PyPI package (hosted, for example, on pypi.org or GitHub) via `pip.main()`. Because pip is not a restricted global, the model, when scanned with picklescan, would pass security checks and appear to be safe, when it could instead prove to be problematic.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/commit/78ce704227c51f070c0c5fb4b466d92c62a7aa3d	Patch
https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-655q-fx9r-782v	Exploit Vendor Advisory
https://sites.google.com/sonatype.com/vulnerabilities/cve-2025-1716	Exploit Mitigation Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mmaitre314:picklescan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2025-02-26 15:15

Updated : 2025-09-30 18:53

NVD link : CVE-2025-1716

Mitre link : CVE-2025-1716

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-1716

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mmaitre314

picklescan

CWE

CWE-184

Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

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