Is CVE-2025-71360 exploited in the wild?

No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-71360 being exploited in the wild.

How severe is CVE-2025-71360?

High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.1, published 4 July 2026.

Which products and versions are affected?

picklescan (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.0.29.

Is there a fix for CVE-2025-71360?

Yes. picklescan (PyPI): upgrade to 0.0.29 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.

How is CVE-2025-71360 attacked?

It is attacked over the network, in a software library.

Am I affected by CVE-2025-71360?

Check whether you run picklescan (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

CVE-2025-71360: picklescan detection bypass via idlelib.calltip.get_entity

CVE-2025-71360 · Severity: high · CVSS 8.1 · Published 2026-07-04

picklescan is a security tool used to scan Python pickle files and machine learning models for malicious code. A vulnerability in versions before 0.0.29 allows specially crafted malicious files to bypass detection by using a specific Python library function. If a user relies on the tool's "safe" verdict and subsequently opens the file, an attacker could execute arbitrary commands on their system, potentially leading to a full system compromise or data theft.

Technologies: picklescan (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2025-71360 exploited in the wild?: No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-71360 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2025-71360?: High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.1, published 4 July 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?: picklescan (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.0.29.
Is there a fix for CVE-2025-71360?: Yes. picklescan (PyPI): upgrade to 0.0.29 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
How is CVE-2025-71360 attacked?: It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
Am I affected by CVE-2025-71360?: Check whether you run picklescan (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

picklescan (PyPI): upgrade to 0.0.29 or later
```
pip install "picklescan>=0.0.29"
```

Technical details

A deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) exists in picklescan due to an incomplete blocklist of dangerous functions. Specifically, the tool fails to identify the 'idlelib.calltip.get_entity' function when used within a pickle's '__reduce__' method. Because 'get_entity' internally performs an evaluation of its input, an attacker can craft a malicious pickle file that executes arbitrary Python code (e.g., os.system calls). The attack requires a victim to scan the file with an affected version of picklescan and, believing it to be safe, proceed to load it using 'pickle.load()'. This issue is resolved in version 0.0.29.

Affected products

picklescan picklescan < 0.0.29

Identifiers

CVE-2025-71360
GHSA-9xph-j2h6-g47v

Timeline

2025-08-26: advisory: Initial GHSA advisory published
2026-07-04: disclosed: CVE-2025-71360 published to NVD

References

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