CVE-2026-84811: Protection Mechanism Failure in agentverus agentverus-scanner
agentverus-scanner fails to analyze compiled Python bytecode files in companion code directories, allowing attackers to bypass security scanning by shipping malicious __pycache__ entries alongside benign source files. Attackers can execute arbitrary Python bytecode on import while the scanner reports a CERTIFIED verdict with high trust scores in both static and semantic analysis modes.
CVE-2026-84811: Protection Mechanism Failure in agentverus agentverus-scanner
Description
agentverus-scanner fails to analyze compiled Python bytecode files in companion code directories, allowing attackers to bypass security scanning by shipping malicious __pycache__ entries alongside benign source files. Attackers can execute arbitrary Python bytecode on import while the scanner reports a CERTIFIED verdict with high trust scores in both static and semantic analysis modes.
CVSS v4.0
Score 7.1high
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- VulnCheck
- Date Reserved
- 2026-09-02T10:19:32.992Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a9857eeacd9273b497f3ca5
Added to database: 09/02/2026, 17:07:58 UTC
Last updated: 09/02/2026, 17:07:58 UTC
Views: 1
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