The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has rushed out Python 3.9.2 and 3.8.8 to address two notable security flaws, including one that is remotely exploitable but in practical terms can only be used ...

The vulnerability is in the Python tarfile package, in code that uses un-sanitized tarfile.extract() function or the built-in defaults of tarfile.extractall(). It is a path traversal bug that ...

Cybersecurity company Trellix announced Wednesday that a known Python vulnerability puts 350,000 ... at risk of device take over or malicious code execution. All applications that use the Python ...

The vulnerability, tracked by CVE ... A proof-of-concept test by researchers Sick Codes and Victor Viale shows Python's ipaddress library would simply discard any leading zeroes.

A 15-year-old vulnerability in the open source Python programming language is still finding its way into live code, with the result that over 350,000 projects are at risk of potential supply chain ...

Newly discovered campaign takes advantage of the fact that most vulnerability scanning ... researchers have found malware code hidden inside a Python bytecode (PYC) file that can be directly ...

Feb. 23, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) - A vulnerability has been discovered in Python's native urllib.parse ... side request forgery (SSRF) and remote code execution (RCE) in a wide range of ...

Many software packages from the Python Package Index (PyPi ... conscious of the risk of installing malicious code associated with it – and the vulnerability can’t be fixed easily.

Called 'default setup,' the novel capability simplifies starting code scanning on repositories using Python, JavaScript and Ruby ... more recently, private vulnerability reporting.

All applications and open-source projects using the Python terfile ... vulnerable. The vulnerability could be exploited by hackers to execute arbitrary code or take control of the device.