picklescan before 0.0.29 fails to detect malicious pickle files using idlelib.calltip.get_entity function in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected code in pickle files that executes remote commands when loaded by victims.
CVE-2025-71360
Score 8.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-04. a secondary CVSS source baseline 8.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.1
- EG Score
- 8.1(high)
- EPSS
- 21.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 4, 2026
Last Modified
July 7, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Jul 4, 2026picklescan - Remote Code Execution via Undetected idlelib.calltip.get_entity | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/picklescan-remote-code-execution-via-undetected-idlelib-calltip-get-entityMissing detection when calling built-in python library idlelib.calltip.get_entity · Advisory · mmaitre314/picklescan · GitHub
https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-9xph-j2h6-g47vVendor Advisories for CVE-2025-71360(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 16× in last 7d / 16× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-06 19:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 19:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 05:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 05:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 16:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 16:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 03:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 03:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 14:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 14:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 01:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 01:41 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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