Is CVE-2026-53872 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2026-53872 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2026-53872?

CVE-2026-53872 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2026-53872?

CVE-2026-53872 has an EPSS score of 0.51% (39th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2026-53872

HIGH

7.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

picklescan before 0.0.35 contains an unsafe pickle deserialization vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary server files by chaining io.FileIO and urllib.request.urlopen. Attackers can bypass RCE-focused blocklists to exfiltrate sensitive data like /etc/passwd to external servers.

CWE-22Path Traversal

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

0.51%probability of exploitation in 30 days

39thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 39% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-06-17.