The official repository for the widely used Python programming language has been tainted with modified code packages ... originate only from their official source, rather than being downloaded ...

vulnerability researcher in the Trellix Advanced Threat Research team The flaw stems from the fact that code in the extract function in Python's tarfile module explicitly trusts the information in ...

A 15-year-old vulnerability in the open source Python programming language is still finding its way into live code, with the result ... in Python’s tarfile module. When exploited, it allows ...

A newly uncovered malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) has raised fresh concerns about the security of open source software repositories ... that subtly modify code behavior. The ...

Python's support for using Unicode characters for identifiers, i.e., code variables, functions, classes, modules ... a theoretical attack called "Trojan Source" that used Unicode control ...