What is CVE-2025-1716?

CVE-2025-1716 is a vulnerability in Mmaitre314 Picklescan, classified under Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs. Published 2025-02-26.

Is CVE-2025-1716 known to be exploited?

5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Mmaitre314 Picklescan

CVE-2025-1716

picklescan before 0.0.21 does not treat 'pip' as an unsafe global. An attacker could craft a malicious model that uses Pickle to pull in a malicious PyPI package (hosted, for example, on pypi.org or GitHub) via `pip.main()`. Because pip is…

EPSS: 0.162 (94.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Mmaitre314 Picklescan — versions 0.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-184 — Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

www.sonatype.com/security-advisories/cve-2025-1716 (third-party-advisory)
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/commit/78ce704227c51f070c0c5fb4b466d92c62a7aa3d (patch)
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-655q-fx9r-782v (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-1716?: CVE-2025-1716 is a vulnerability in Mmaitre314 Picklescan, classified under Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs. Published 2025-02-26.
Is CVE-2025-1716 known to be exploited?: 5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.