CVE-2025-10157 (GCVE-0-2025-10157)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-17 11:33 – Updated: 2025-09-17 13:07
VLAI
Title
PickleScan Bypasses Unsafe Globals Check Using Submodule Imports
Summary
A Protection Mechanism Failure vulnerability in mmaitre314 picklescan versions up to and including 0.0.30 allows a remote attacker to bypass the unsafe globals check. This is possible because the scanner performs an exact match for module names, allowing malicious payloads to be loaded via submodules of dangerous packages (e.g., 'asyncio.unix_events' instead of 'asyncio'). When the incorrectly considered safe file is loaded after scan, it can lead to the execution of malicious code.
Severity
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-17 13:07 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-693 - - Protection Mechanism Failure
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mmaitre314 picklescan Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.0.30 (semver)
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Credits
JFrog @xdcrev
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