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High · 8.9 CVE-2026-22608 EUVD-2026-1686GHSA-5hvc-6wx8-mvv4PYSEC-2026-1369

Fickling vulnerable to use of ctypes and pydoc gadget chain to bypass detection

Published Jan 10, 2026 · Updated Jan 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Fickling is a Python pickling decompiler and static analyzer. Prior to version 0.1.7, both ctypes and pydoc modules aren't explicitly blocked. Even other existing pickle scanning tools (like picklescan) do not block pydoc.locate. Chaining these two together can achieve RCE while the scanner still reports the file as LIKELY_SAFE. This issue has been patched in version 0.1.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
trailofbits fickling < 0.1.7 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI fickling < 0.1.7 0.1.7 GHSA-5hvc-6wx8-mvv4

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