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gabegoodhart

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    Comment #31520135

    Yep, this is spot on. As written, import_tracker does indeed do a dynamic import of the library in question and you're right that this introduces the possibility of arbitrary code …

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    Comment #31520079

    Makes sense! I think the commenter below correctly addressed the true security concern here which is importing arbitrary python libraries. As is, import_tracker doesn't attempt to …

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    Comment #31510860

    Hi, I'm the main author of import_tracker. Thanks for taking the time to dig into it! It's a really interesting point that the subproces.Popen could itself be a security concern. T…