DeepDiff is a project focused on Deep Difference and search of any Python data. From version 5.0.0 to before version 8.6.2, the pickle unpickler _RestrictedUnpickler validates which classes can be loaded but does not limit their constructor arguments. A few of the types in SAFE_TO_IMPORT have constructors that allocate memory proportional to their input (builtins.bytes, builtins.list, builtins.range). A 40-byte pickle payload can force 10+ GB of memory, which crashes applications that load delta objects or call pickle_load with untrusted data. This issue has been patched in version 8.6.2.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-54jj-px8x-5w5q DeepDiff has Memory Exhaustion DoS through SAFE_TO_IMPORT
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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:45:00 +0000

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Description DeepDiff is a project focused on Deep Difference and search of any Python data. From version 5.0.0 to before version 8.6.2, the pickle unpickler _RestrictedUnpickler validates which classes can be loaded but does not limit their constructor arguments. A few of the types in SAFE_TO_IMPORT have constructors that allocate memory proportional to their input (builtins.bytes, builtins.list, builtins.range). A 40-byte pickle payload can force 10+ GB of memory, which crashes applications that load delta objects or call pickle_load with untrusted data. This issue has been patched in version 8.6.2.
Title DeepDiff has Memory Exhaustion DoS through SAFE_TO_IMPORT
Weaknesses CWE-400
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-20T20:25:53.405Z

Reserved: 2026-03-17T21:17:08.886Z

Link: CVE-2026-33155

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-20T21:17:15.910

Modified: 2026-03-20T21:17:15.910

Link: CVE-2026-33155

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