GHSA-g38g-8gr9-h9xp: picklescan (CVE-2026-56315)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
picklescan	PyPI	<1.0.4	1.0.4

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Picklescan versions before 1.0.4 do not block several Python standard library modules, such as uuid, imaplib and _osx_support, that can run arbitrary commands when a pickle file imports them, so malicious files can be reported as clean. An attacker who supplies a crafted pickle file to a system that scans or loads it can execute code there. Upgrade picklescan to version 1.0.4 or later.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.3	Critical	4.0	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	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.011, the 66th percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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