GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9vMedium

DiskCache has unsafe pickle deserialization

Published
February 11, 2026
Last Modified
February 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/diskcache:<= 5.6.3

🔗 References (3)