Understanding and Defending Against CVE-2025-71348: A Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in picklescan
CVE-2025-71348 is a high-severity vulnerability in the picklescan library, which fails to detect malicious pickle files that can execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 8.1, allows attackers to craft pickle files that evade detection but execute during pickle.load, enabling remote code execution in supply chain attacks. The vulnerability affects picklescan versions before 0.0.28. Understanding this threat is crucial for defenders to protect against potential supply chain attacks.