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CVE-2025-71321criticalCWE-502

picklescan - Arbitrary File Writing via distutils Module Bypass

28Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Trackcvss 9.3epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 53% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
picklescan before 0.0.33 contains an arbitrary file writing vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass the dangerous blocklist by using distutils.file_util.write_file. Attackers can construct malicious pickle objects to overwrite critical system files and achieve denial of service or remote code execution.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
picklescan · picklescan