# diskcache (PyPI) vulnerabilities

1 known vulnerability (1 critical), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: 5.6.3 (Aug 31, 2023): affected by CVE-2025-69872
- Newest unaffected release: Every release is affected by at least one advisory
- Weekly downloads: 6.2M
- Dependents: 3,819
- Releases: 84 since 0.1.0 (Feb 4, 2016)
- Registry: https://pypi.org/project/diskcache/
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2025-69872: 0.1.0 to 5.6.3 (through the newest release)

## Advisories (1)

### [CVE-2025-69872](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-69872): DiskCache (python-diskcache) through 5.6.3 uses Python pickle for serialization by default.

- Severity: Critical 9.8
- Published: Feb 11, 2026
- Affected: through 5.6.3.
- No fix released. The latest release, 5.6.3, is still affected.

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