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

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...

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 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...

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-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. ...

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...

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...

[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...

Fedora 18 : bzr-2.5.1-11.fc18 (2013-9620)

Fixes CVE-2013-2099, maliciously crafted SSL certificate can cause a denial of service. - Builds the C extensions from the Cython source instead of the pregenerated C files. - Build without strict-aliasing on Fedora versions which have a bug in the python distutils module. - Install the...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 : python3.1 vulnerabilities (USN-1616-1)

It was discovered that Python would prepend an empty string to sys.path under certain circumstances. A local attacker with write access to the current working directory could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. CVE-2008-5983 It was discovered that th...

Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : python3.2 vulnerabilities (USN-1615-1)

It was discovered that Python distutils contained a race condition when creating the /.pypirc file. A local attacker could exploit this to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2011-4944 It was discovered that SimpleXMLRPCServer did not properly validate its input when handling HTTP POST requests. A...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : python2.5 vulnerabilities (USN-1613-1)

It was discovered that Python would prepend an empty string to sys.path under certain circumstances. A local attacker with write access to the current working directory could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-5983 It was discovered that the audioop module did not correctly perform...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : python2.4 vulnerabilities (USN-1613-2)

USN-1613-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Python 2.5. This update provides the corresponding updates for Python 2.4. It was discovered that Python would prepend an empty string to sys.path under certain circumstances. A local attacker with write access to the current working directory could exploit thi...