CVE-2026-53875

HIGH

picklescan - Scanning Bypass via Dynamic Eval in scan_pytorch

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

picklescan before 1.0.3 contains a scanning bypass vulnerability in the scan_pytorch function that allows attackers to embed malicious magic numbers via dynamic eval using the __reduce__ trick. Attackers can craft malicious PyTorch payloads that evade picklescan detection while remaining executable, enabling arbitrary code execution when loaded with torch.load().

References (4)

Core 4

Scores

CVSS v4 7.1
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 34.5%
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-95
Status published
Products (3)
picklescan/picklescan < 1.0.3
picklescan/picklescan 1.0.3
pypi/picklescan 0 - 1.0.3PyPI
Published Jun 17, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 17, 2026