# CVE-2026-114608: Pylint: Arbitrary code execution via pickle deserialization of the stats cache in PYLINT\_HOME

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-108257, GHSA-22QQ-2FWX-7P67
- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.0.9
- Published: 2026-10-22 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Summary

Pylint, a static code analysis tool for Python, is affected. An attacker who can write to a shared or untrusted cache directory used by Pylint could plant a malicious stats file that runs arbitrary code with the privileges of the user who next runs Pylint.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- pylint-dev pylint: fixed in 4.0.9
- pylint (PyPI): fixed in 4.0.9

## Description

Pylint is a static code analyser for Python. From 0.15.2 until 4.0.9, Pylint stores module statistics in predictable files under PYLINT_HOME and loads those files with pickle.load on a later run. An attacker who can write to a shared, group-writable, or otherwise untrusted cache directory can replace a stats cache with crafted serialized data, causing arbitrary code to execute with the privileges of the user who next runs Pylint. The default per-user cache is not normally writable by another user. This issue is fixed in version 4.0.9.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/security/advisories/GHSA-22qq-2fwx-7p67
- https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/commit/58c87cffca9de2b3e89aa07b89686cbc90cfea2d
- https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/commit/5b241f66318220e9ba7b21ca631fbfe8e77682ca
- https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/releases/tag/v4.0.9

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