Fickling has a detection bypass via stdlib network-protocol constructors

Our assessment imtplib, imaplib, ftplib, poplib, telnetlib, and nntplib were added to the list of unsafe imports https://github.com/trailofbits/fickling/commit/6d20564d23acf14b42ec883908aed159be7b9ade. The UnusedVariables heuristic works as expected. Original report Summary Fickling's checksafety...

numpy: crafted serialized object passed in numpy.load() in pickle python module allows arbitrary code execution

An issue was discovered in NumPy before 1.16.3. It uses the pickle Python module unsafely, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized object, as demonstrated by a numpy.load call. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue because it is a behavior that might have...