PYSEC-2026-1791 Picklescan vulnerable to Arbitrary File Writing

Summary Picklescan has got open and shutil in its default dangerous blocklist to prevent arbitrary file overwrites. However the module distutils isnt blocked and can be used for the same purpose ie to write arbitrary files. Details This is another vulnerability which impacts the downstream user. ...

GHSA-RMPP-8WF5-XX5Q Duplicate Advisory: Picklescan vulnerable to Arbitrary File Writing

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-m273-6v24-x4m4. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description picklescan before 0.0.33 contains an arbitrary file writing vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass the dangero...

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Overview picklescan is a Security scanner detecting Python Pickle files performing suspicious actions Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data via the distutils.fileutil.writefile function. An attacker can overwrite critical system files by crafting...

CVE-2025-71321

picklescan before 0.0.33 contains an arbitrary file writing vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass the dangerous blocklist by using distutils.fileutil.writefile. Attackers can construct malicious pickle objects to overwrite critical system files and achieve denial of service or remote code...

CVE-2025-71321 picklescan - Arbitrary File Writing via distutils Module Bypass

picklescan before 0.0.33 contains an arbitrary file writing vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass the dangerous blocklist by using distutils.fileutil.writefile. Attackers can construct malicious pickle objects to overwrite critical system files and achieve denial of service or remote code...

EUVD-2025-210268

picklescan before 0.0.33 contains an arbitrary file writing vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass the dangerous blocklist by using distutils.fileutil.writefile. Attackers can construct malicious pickle objects to overwrite critical system files and achieve denial of service or remote code...

CVE-2025-71321

CVE-2025-71321 concerns the Python toolset picker scan showing an arbitrary file writing vulnerability in the package before version 0.0.33. The root cause is bypassing the dangerous blocklist by abusing distutils.file_util.write_file, enabling attackers to craft malicious pickle objects that ove...

CVE-2025-71321 picklescan - Arbitrary File Writing via distutils Module Bypass

picklescan before 0.0.33 contains an arbitrary file writing vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass the dangerous blocklist by using distutils.fileutil.writefile. Attackers can construct malicious pickle objects to overwrite critical system files and achieve denial of service or remote code...

GHSA-M273-6V24-X4M4 Picklescan vulnerable to Arbitrary File Writing

Summary Picklescan has got open and shutil in its default dangerous blocklist to prevent arbitrary file overwrites. However the module distutils isnt blocked and can be used for the same purpose ie to write arbitrary files. Details This is another vulnerability which impacts the downstream user. ...

Picklescan vulnerable to Arbitrary File Writing

Summary Picklescan has got open and shutil in its default dangerous blocklist to prevent arbitrary file overwrites. However the module distutils isnt blocked and can be used for the same purpose ie to write arbitrary files. Details This is another vulnerability which impacts the downstream user. ...

PT-2026-50452

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions picklescan versions prior to 0.0.33 Description An arbitrary file writing issue exists because the default dangerous blocklist fails to include the distutils module. While open and shutil are blocked to prevent unauthorized file overwrites,...

USN-7002-1: Setuptools vulnerability

It was discovered that setuptools was vulnerable to remote code execution. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

RLSA-2024:5279 Important: python3.11-setuptools security update

Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python 3 distutils that allow you to more easily build and distribute Python 3 packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other packages. This package also contains the runtime components of setuptools, necessary to execute the software...

ALSA-2024:5532 Important: python3.11-setuptools security update

Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python 3 distutils that allow you to more easily build and distribute Python 3 packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other packages. This package also contains the runtime components of setuptools, necessary to execute the software...

ALSA-2024:5533 Important: python3.12-setuptools security update

Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python 3 distutils that allow you to more easily build and distribute Python 3 packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other packages. This package also contains the runtime components of setuptools, necessary to execute the software...

Important: python3.11-setuptools security update

Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python 3 distutils that allow you to more easily build and distribute Python 3 packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other packages. This package also contains the runtime components of setuptools, necessary to execute the software...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: python-setuptools-67.7.2-8.fc39

Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils that allow you to more easily build and distribute Python packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other packages. This package also contains the runtime components of setuptools, necessary to execute the software that...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: python-setuptools-59.6.0-4.fc36

Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils that allow you to more easily build and distribute Python packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other packages. This package also contains the runtime components of setuptools, necessary to execute the software that...

Information Disclosure

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. A denial of service flaw was found in the implementation of associative arrays dictionaries in Python. An attacker able to supply a large number of inputs to a Python application such as HTTP POST request parameters sent...

Amazon Linux AMI : python26 (ALAS-2012-98)

A denial of service flaw was found in the implementation of associative arrays dictionaries in Python. An attacker able to supply a large number of inputs to a Python application such as HTTP POST request parameters sent to a web application that are used as keys when inserting data into an array...