CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-69872

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2026-02-11 Modified 2026-07-15 Official page ↗

Status: Deferred
Published: 2026-02-11
Last modified: 2026-07-15
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0): 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c): 7.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Weaknesses: CWE-502, CWE-94

Description

DiskCache (python-diskcache) through 5.6.3 uses Python pickle for serialization by default. An attacker with write access to the cache directory can achieve arbitrary code execution when a victim application reads from the cache.

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References

https://github.com/EthanKim88/ethan-cve-disclosures/blob/main/CVE-2025-69872-DiskCache-Pickle-Deserialization.md github.com
https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache github.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36350 access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3713 access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-69872 access.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439059 bugzilla.redhat.com
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-69872.json security.access.redhat.com

CVE-2025-69872

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Weakness · CWE (2)

References