GHSA-x843-g5mx-g377: Picklescan is vulnerable to RCE through missing detection when calling built-in python operator.methodcaller

December 29, 2025

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

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-x843-g5mx-g377
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/commit/70c1c6c31beb6baaf52c8db1b6c3c0e84a6f9dab
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/pull/53
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-x843-g5mx-g377

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