[Python-Dev] Critical bash vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 may affect Python on nx and OSX (original) (raw)

Jeremy Sanders jeremy at jeremysanders.net
Fri Sep 26 09:28:15 CEST 2014

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Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Fortunately, Python's subprocess has its shell argument default to False. However, os.system invokes the shell implicitly and is therefore a possible attack vector.

Of course anything called by subprocess with shell=False may invoke the shell itself if it runs other processes.

Jeremy

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