GHSA-9w88-8rmg-7g2p: Picklescan is missing detection when calling built-in python cProfile.runctx

August 26, 2025

Using cProfile.runctx function, which is a built-in python library function to execute remote pickle file.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-9w88-8rmg-7g2p
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/commit/1931c2d04eaca8d20597705ff39cab78ba364e4b
github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-9w88-8rmg-7g2p

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