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CVE-2025-1945mediumCWE-345

picklescan - Zip Flag Bit Exploit Crashes Picklescan But Not PyTorch

13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 57% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
picklescan before 0.0.23 fails to detect malicious pickle files inside PyTorch model archives when certain ZIP file flag bits are modified. By flipping specific bits in the ZIP file headers, an attacker can embed malicious pickle files that remain undetected by PickleScan while still being successfully loaded by PyTorch's torch.load(). This can lead to arbitrary code execution when loading a compromised model.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L
Affected products
mmaitre314 · picklescan