CVE-2026-53873
picklescan before 1.0.4 contains an incomplete blocklist for the profile module that fails to block the module-level profile.run() function, allowing attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution via exec(). Attackers can craft malicious pickle files calling profile.run(statement) to execute arbitrary Python code while picklescan reports zero security issues.
- Affected products
- Picklescan
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICAL
- EPSS
- 0.5% (38th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-184
- NVD status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-06-17
CVE-2026-53873 at NVD
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