GHSA-JGW4-CR84-MQXG Picklescan Bypass is Possible via File Extension Mismatch

Summary Picklescan can be bypassed, allowing the detection of malicious pickle files to fail, when a standard pickle file is given a PyTorch-related file extension e.g., .bin. This occurs because the scanner prioritizes PyTorch file extension checks and errors out when parsing a standard pickle...

PYSEC-2025-20

picklescan before 0.0.23 is vulnerable to a ZIP archive manipulation attack that causes it to crash when attempting to extract and scan PyTorch model archives. By modifying the filename in the ZIP header while keeping the original filename in the directory listing, an attacker can make PickleScan...