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Medium, CVSS 5.2amended

DiskCache has unsafe pickle deserialization

CVE-2025-69872GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v

What to do

Vendor response not established. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check back for a fix.

This page has no inventory attached, so it cannot say whether you are affected. A vendor fix is not proof that your deployment is fixed.

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Affected packages

  • PyPI diskcache

    Affected
    <= 5.6.3
    Fixed in
    no fixed version recorded

Sources

Severity and exploitation
Exploitation
No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.
CVSS 4.0
5.2 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P · score source
EPSS
  • CVE-2025-69872: 0.61% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 49.18 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.
Source description

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

DiskCache (python-diskcache) through 5.6.3 uses Python pickle for serialization by default. An attacker with write access to the cache directory can achieve arbitrary code execution when a victim application reads from the cache.

Dates and revisions
Published by the source
Last modified by the source
Source last checked
  1. Revision 3 · amended ·

    Amended from ghsa record GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v

  2. Revision 2 · amended ·

    Reviewed OSV alias/range/CVSS4 correction; package source scopes and original publication preserved. No customer finding resolved.

  3. Revision 1 · created ·

    Published from osv record GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2025-69872

Advisory: DiskCache has unsafe pickle deserialization
IDs: CVE-2025-69872, GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2025-69872 (revision 3, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 13:36 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.2)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor response not established. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- PyPI diskcache: affected <= 5.6.3

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- `python -m pip show diskcache`: prints the installed version. Run with the environment that serves production active.

## Supported action
No complete vendor fix is recorded. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check this record again before closing anything.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on diskcache.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v (OSV record GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v lists affected ranges: PyPI diskcache >=0 <=5.6.3)
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v lists affected ranges: PyPI diskcache >=0 <=5.6.3)

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