PickleScan has multiple stdlib modules with direct RCE not in blocklist

Summary picklescan v1.0.3 latest does not block at least 7 Python standard library modules that provide direct arbitrary command execution or code evaluation. A malicious pickle file importing these modules is reported as having 0 issues CLEAN scan. This enables remote code execution that bypasse...

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...

Amazon Linux AMI : python26 (ALAS-2013-241)

It was discovered that multiple Python standard library modules implementing network protocols such as httplib or smtplib failed to restrict sizes of server responses. A malicious server could cause a client using one of the affected modules to consume an excessive amount of memory. CVE-2013-1752...