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Old vulnerabilities in both Java and Python that allow attackers to bypass firewalls and access local networks by injecting malicious commands inside FTP URLs resurfaced this week when two security ...

The Java and Python runtimes fail to properly validate FTP URLs, ... (Server Side Request Forgery) attacks to open up one TCP port,” he said in a blog post Monday.