GHSA-955r-x9j8-7rhh: Picklescan is vulnerable to RCE via missing detection when calling built-in python _operator.methodcaller

December 30, 2025

Picklescan uses _operator.methodcaller, which is a built-in python library function to execute remote pickle files.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-955r-x9j8-7rhh
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/commit/f2dea43e0c838e09ace1e62994143254b51de927
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/releases/tag/v0.0.34
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-955r-x9j8-7rhh

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