What is GHSA-j6fw-8849-4cxh?

GHSA-j6fw-8849-4cxh is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. picklescan before 0.0.30 fails to detect malicious pickle files using idlelib.run.Executive...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-j6fw-8849-4cxh cover?

GHSA-j6fw-8849-4cxh covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2025-71342. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-j6fw-8849-4cxh?

GHSA-j6fw-8849-4cxh has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-j6fw-8849-4cxhHighCVSS 8.1

picklescan before 0.0.30 fails to detect malicious pickle files using idlelib.run.Executive...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

July 4, 2026

Last Modified

July 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-71342 →

📋 Description

picklescan before 0.0.30 fails to detect malicious pickle files using idlelib.run.Executive.runcode in reduce methods. Attackers can embed undetected code in pickle files that executes during pickle.load, enabling remote code execution in PyTorch models and supply chain attacks.

🔗 References (4)

https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-m869-42cg-3xwr
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71342
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/picklescan-undetected-remote-code-execution-via-idlelib-run-executive-runcode
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6fw-8849-4cxh