Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner. Overview. The Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner is a Python-based tool designed to detect common security vulnerabilities in Python scripts. It scans code files ...

Comparing Machine Learning Algorithms for Python Source Code Vulnerability Detection. For training the model run Train-Model.py (mode can be changed for different vulnerabilities) ...

Programming language source code vulnerability mining is crucial to improving the security of software systems, but current research is mostly focused on the C language field, with little attention ...

Python really shines when it comes to automating repetitive tasks. Think about it: scanning networks, fuzzing applications, ...

All applications and open-source projects using the Python terfile module are potentially vulnerable, according to cybersecurity company Trellix. Currently, 350,000 open-source projects and ...

PSF is urging its legion of Python users to upgrade systems to Python 3.8.8 or 3.9.2, in particular to address the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that's tracked as CVE-2021-3177.

The vulnerability is in the Python tarfile package, in code that uses un-sanitized tarfile.extract() function or the built-in defaults of tarfile.extractall(). It is a path traversal bug that ...

Newly discovered campaign takes advantage of the fact that most vulnerability scanning tools don't read compiled open-source software. Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories ...

Trellix is working to push code via GitHub pull request to protect open-source projects from the vulnerability. Trellix currently has patches available for 11,005 repositories ready for pull requests.