CVE-2025-69872

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.6% (47th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, EPSS
Trending — 5 sources updated this weekElevated
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

DiskCache (python-diskcache) through 5.6.3 uses Python pickle for serialization by default. An attacker with write access to the cache directory can achieve arbitrary code execution when a victim application reads from the cache.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.8 of 10.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
47th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

February 11, 2026

Last Modified

July 15, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 10, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-69872.json
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

2439059 – (CVE-2025-69872) CVE-2025-69872 python-diskcache: python-diskcache: Arbitrary code execution via insecure pickle deserialization

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439059
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2025-69872 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-69872
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3713
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36350
Web page

GitHub - grantjenks/python-diskcache: Python disk-backed cache (Django-compatible). Faster than Redis and Memcached. Pure-Python. · GitHub

https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache
Web page

ethan-cve-disclosures/CVE-2025-69872-DiskCache-Pickle-Deserialization.md at main · EthanKim88/ethan-cve-disclosures · GitHub

https://github.com/EthanKim88/ethan-cve-disclosures/blob/main/CVE-2025-69872-DiskCache-Pickle-Deserialization.md

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-69872(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatsatellite/foreman-mcp-server-rhel9:17827393442026-07-07redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-kserve-agent-rhel9:17707546052026-03-04redhat
pipdiskcache—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
diskcache5.2.1-2 ... 5.6.3-2 (6 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
diskcache5.4.0-1, 5.4.0-2, 5.4.0-3, 5.6.3-1, 5.6.3-2
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
diskcache5.6.3-1, 5.6.3-2
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
diskcache5.6.3-1, 5.6.3-2
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
diskcache0.1.0 ... 5.6.3 (84 versions)
  • every version through 5.6.3: no fix on record
—

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 22× in last 7d / 41× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 266 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 167 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  2. 2026-10-15 15:51 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-15 15:51 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-15 15:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  5. 2026-10-14 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  6. 2026-10-14 10:04 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-14 10:04 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-14 10:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  9. 2026-10-13 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  10. 2026-10-13 08:17 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-13 08:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  12. 2026-10-12 16:46 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  14. 2026-10-12 10:07 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-12 10:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  16. 2026-10-11 20:21 UTCEG score recompute
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-69872?
CVE-2025-69872 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on February 11, 2026. DiskCache (python-diskcache) through 5.6.3 uses Python pickle for serialization by default. An attacker with write access to the cache directory can achieve arbitrary code execution when a victim application reads from the cache.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-69872 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-69872 was published on February 11, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 15, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2025-69872 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-69872 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (47th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-69872?
CVE-2025-69872 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-69872?
A fix for CVE-2025-69872 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-69872 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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