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CVE-2025-5175

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-5175 is a critical improper authorization vulnerability affecting erdogant pypickle versions up to 1.1.5, specifically within the Save function of pypickle/pypickle.py. This vulnerability requires local access for exploitation and could lead to high integrity impact, though confidentiality and availability are not affected. While the exploit has been publicly disclosed, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage. Organizations are advised to upgrade to pypickle version 2.0.0 to remediate this issue.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:erdogant:pypickle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

4.8MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
LOW
VS Integrity
LOW
VS Availability
LOW
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
10.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: pypickleFixed in: 2.0.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-qpxx-2cwh-r5vhmedium

pypickle Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability

May 26, 2025

References

github.com / erdogant/pypickle/commit/14b4cae704a0bb4eb6723e238f25382d847a1917
Patch
github.com / erdogant/pypickle/issues/3
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
github.com / erdogant/pypickle/issues/3
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
github.com / erdogant/pypickle/issues/3
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
github.com / erdogant/pypickle/releases/tag/2.0.0
Release Notes
vuldb.com
Permissions RequiredVDB Entry
vuldb.com
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
vuldb.com
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry