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A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the widely-used Python `requests` library, tracked as CVE-2026-25645. The flaw resides in the `requests.utils.extract_zipped_paths()` utility function, which can be exploited by a local attacker to hijack file loading and execute malicious code. This is not a remo...
A critical security vulnerability has been patched in the widely-used Python `cryptography` library, exposing countless applications to potential buffer overflow attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-39892, could allow an attacker to read past the end of a memory buffer, potentially leading to crashes or arbitrary cod...
A critical security vulnerability has been patched in the widely-used `python-ecdsa` library, a core component for cryptographic signing in Python applications. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-33936, resides in the library's low-level DER parsing functions. Specifically, the `ecdsa.der.remove_octet_string()` function fai...
A critical security flaw in the widely-used python-dotenv library has been patched, exposing applications to arbitrary file overwrite attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28684 and GHSA-mf9w-mj56-hr94, resides in the `set_key()` and `unset_key()` functions. These functions, responsible for modifying `.env` f...