CVE-2025-69872

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.6% (49th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, EPSS
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2025-207391 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
49th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 · CVSS v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

February 11, 2026

Last Modified

July 15, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 31, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

2439059 – (CVE-2025-69872) CVE-2025-69872 python-diskcache: python-diskcache: Arbitrary code execution via insecure pickle deserialization

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439059
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2025-69872 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-69872
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3713
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36350
Web page

GitHub - grantjenks/python-diskcache: Python disk-backed cache (Django-compatible). Faster than Redis and Memcached. Pure-Python. · GitHub

https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache
Web page🟡 PoC Available

ethan-cve-disclosures/CVE-2025-69872-DiskCache-Pickle-Deserialization.md at main · EthanKim88/ethan-cve-disclosures · GitHub

https://github.com/EthanKim88/ethan-cve-disclosures/blob/main/CVE-2025-69872-DiskCache-Pickle-Deserialization.md

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-69872(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatsatellite/foreman-mcp-server-rhel9:17827393442026-07-07redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-kserve-agent-rhel9:17707546052026-03-04redhat
pipdiskcache—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
diskcache5.2.1-2 ... 5.6.3-2 (6 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
diskcache5.4.0-1, 5.4.0-2, 5.4.0-3, 5.6.3-1, 5.6.3-2
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
diskcache5.6.3-1, 5.6.3-2
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
diskcache5.6.3-1, 5.6.3-2
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
diskcache0.1.0 ... 5.6.3 (84 versions)
  • every version through 5.6.3: no fix on record
—

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 27× in last 7d / 98× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 336 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 237 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 15:03 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-01 15:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v · GitHub severity MODERATE
  4. 2026-10-31 16:55 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-31 16:55 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-31 16:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  7. 2026-10-31 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  8. 2026-10-30 18:32 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-30 18:32 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-30 18:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  11. 2026-10-30 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  12. 2026-10-29 20:24 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-29 20:24 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-29 20:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  15. 2026-10-29 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  16. 2026-10-28 22:17 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-28 22:17 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-28 22:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  19. 2026-10-28 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  20. 2026-10-28 00:08 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-28 00:08 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-28 00:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  23. 2026-10-27 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  24. 2026-10-27 01:58 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-27 01:58 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-27 01:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  2. 2026-10-26 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  3. 2026-10-25 23:49 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-25 23:49 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-25 23:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  6. 2026-10-25 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  7. 2026-10-25 16:02 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-25 01:36 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-25 01:36 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-25 01:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  11. 2026-10-24 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  12. 2026-10-24 03:28 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-24 03:28 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-24 03:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  15. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  16. 2026-10-23 05:19 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-23 05:19 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-23 05:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  19. 2026-10-22 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  20. 2026-10-22 07:09 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-22 07:09 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-22 07:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  23. 2026-10-21 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  24. 2026-10-21 09:01 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-21 09:01 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-21 09:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  27. 2026-10-20 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  28. 2026-10-20 10:53 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-10-20 10:53 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-20 10:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  31. 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  32. 2026-10-19 12:41 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-10-19 12:41 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-19 12:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  35. 2026-10-18 11:04 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-18 11:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  37. 2026-10-18 05:16 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  39. 2026-10-17 12:54 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-17 12:54 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-17 12:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  42. 2026-10-16 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  43. 2026-10-16 14:44 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-10-16 14:44 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-16 14:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  46. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  47. 2026-10-15 15:51 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-10-15 15:51 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-15 15:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  50. 2026-10-14 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  51. 2026-10-14 10:04 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-10-14 10:04 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-14 10:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  54. 2026-10-13 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  55. 2026-10-13 08:17 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-13 08:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  57. 2026-10-12 16:46 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  59. 2026-10-12 10:07 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-12 10:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w8v5-vhqr-4h9v
  61. 2026-10-11 20:21 UTCEG score recompute
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  64. 2026-10-11 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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  66. 2026-10-09 20:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  67. 2026-10-09 08:25 UTCOSV refresh
  68. 2026-10-08 17:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-69872?
CVE-2025-69872 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on February 11, 2026. 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.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-69872 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-69872 was published on February 11, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 15, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2025-69872 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-69872 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (49th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-69872?
CVE-2025-69872 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-69872?
A fix for CVE-2025-69872 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-69872 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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