Base64 decoding stops at first padded quad by default
When calling base64.b64decode() or related functions the decoding process would stop after encountering the first padded quad regardless of whether there was more information to be processed.
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When calling base64.b64decode() or related functions the decoding process would stop after encountering the first padded quad regardless of whether there was more information to be processed.
Attacker-controlled CSV samples can trigger super-linear regular-expression work during dialect sniffing and consume significant CPU when applications pass unbounded input to csv.Sniffer.sniff().
http.cookies.Morsel.js_output() returns an inline <script> snippet and only escapes " for JavaScript string context.
DISPUTED: The project has clarified that the documentation was incorrect, and that pkgutil.get_data() has the same security model as open().