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.
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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.
Title Fickling vulnerable to use of ctypes and pydoc gadget chain to bypass detection
Weaknesses CWE-184
CWE-502
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2026-01-10T01:35:11.291Z

Updated: 2026-01-10T01:35:11.291Z

Reserved: 2026-01-07T21:50:39.534Z

Link: CVE-2026-22608

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-01-10T02:15:49.917

Modified: 2026-01-10T02:15:49.917

Link: CVE-2026-22608

cve-icon Redhat

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