What is GHSA-mg57-j93w-g3c7?

GHSA-mg57-j93w-g3c7 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Duplicate Advisory: Picklescan has a missing detection when calling built-in python profile.Profile.runctx

Why does GHSA-mg57-j93w-g3c7 have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-mg57-j93w-g3c7?

GHSA-mg57-j93w-g3c7 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-mg57-j93w-g3c7?

GHSA-mg57-j93w-g3c7 affects 1 product, including: pip/picklescan:\u003c 0.0.29.

⚠ Withdrawn by GitHub Security Advisories

Withdrawn: September 23, 2026

GHSA-mg57-j93w-g3c7HighCVSS 8.1Disclosed before NVD

Duplicate Advisory: Picklescan has a missing detection when calling built-in python profile.Profile.runctx

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

June 23, 2026

Last Modified

September 23, 2026

📋 Description

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-6vqj-c2q5-j97w. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

picklescan before 0.0.29 fails to detect the profile.Profile.runctx function when analyzing pickle files, allowing attackers to embed undetected malicious code. Remote attackers can craft malicious pickle files using profile.Profile.runctx in the reduce method to achieve remote code execution when the pickle file is loaded.

🎯 Affected products1

pip/picklescan:< 0.0.29

🔗 References (4)

https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-6vqj-c2q5-j97w
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71341
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/picklescan-remote-code-execution-via-undetected-profile-profile-runctx
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mg57-j93w-g3c7