Remote Code Execution Affecting pylint package, versions [1.1.0,2.5.0)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PYLINT-568073
- published 4 May 2020
- disclosed 1 May 2020
- credit Unknown
How to fix?
Upgrade pylint to version 2.5.0 or higher.
Overview
pylint is a Python static code analysis tool which looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard, sniffs for code smells and offers simple refactoring suggestions.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution. python -m pylint imports user code. It adds the current working directory as the first element of sys.path this opens up a security hole where pylint imports user level code as long as that code resides in modules with the same name as stdlib or pylint's own modules.