CVE-2026-53872
picklescan before 0.0.35 contains an unsafe pickle deserialization vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary server files by chaining io.FileIO and urllib.request.urlopen. Attackers can bypass RCE-focused blocklists to exfiltrate sensitive data like /etc/passwd to external servers.
- Affected products
- Picklescan
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.7 HIGH
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.5% (41th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- NVD status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-06-17
CVE-2026-53872 at NVD
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