CVE-2026-22608 — Fickling vulnerable to use of ctypes and pydoc gadget chain to bypass detection
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 scannin…
Published: 2026-01-10 · CVSS: 8.9 · CVSS 4.0
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7