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: 0.016 (73.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-1716?
CVE-2025-1716 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Mmaitre314 Picklescan, classified under Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-02-26.
How severe is CVE-2025-1716?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-1716 known to be exploited?
5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.