Is CVE-2025-71368 exploited in the wild?

No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-71368 being exploited in the wild.

How severe is CVE-2025-71368?

High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.1, published 30 June 2026.

Which products and versions are affected?

picklescan (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.0.30.

Is there a fix for CVE-2025-71368?

Yes. picklescan (PyPI): upgrade to 0.0.30 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.

How is CVE-2025-71368 attacked?

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

Am I affected by CVE-2025-71368?

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-2025-71368: picklescan detection bypass via doctest.debug_script

CVE-2025-71368 · Severity: high · CVSS 8.1 · Published 2026-06-30

picklescan is a security tool used to scan Python pickle files and machine learning models for malicious code. A vulnerability in versions before 0.0.30 allows specially crafted malicious files to bypass detection by using a specific Python function. If a user trusts the scan results and opens the file, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the user's system, potentially leading to a full system compromise.

Technologies: picklescan (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2025-71368 exploited in the wild?: No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-71368 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2025-71368?: High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.1, published 30 June 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?: picklescan (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.0.30.
Is there a fix for CVE-2025-71368?: Yes. picklescan (PyPI): upgrade to 0.0.30 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
How is CVE-2025-71368 attacked?: It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
Am I affected by CVE-2025-71368?: 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 0.0.30 or later
```
pip install "picklescan>=0.0.30"
```

Technical details

A deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) exists in picklescan due to an incomplete blocklist of dangerous functions. The tool fails to identify the 'doctest.debug_script' function when analyzing pickle files. An attacker can craft a malicious pickle file using the '__reduce__' method to call this function, which internally executes arbitrary Python code via 'exec()'. If a victim relies on picklescan to validate a file and subsequently loads it using 'pickle.load()', the embedded payload will execute. This issue is resolved in version 0.0.30.

Affected products

picklescan picklescan < 0.0.30

Identifiers

CVE-2025-71368
GHSA-fqq6-7vqf-w3fg

Timeline

2025-08-26: advisory: Initial GitHub security advisory published
2026-06-30: disclosed: CVE published to NVD

References

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