Documentation should warn about code injection from current working directory

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation, security

Research direction

No documentation file is named, so start by reading the migrated BPO issue 35971 and its nine-message thread to identify the intended documentation location and scope. Done means adding the requested warning about code injection from the current working directory and verifying the documentation change.

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Description

3.7 (EOL) 3.8 (EOL) docs type-security
BPO 35971
Nosy @ronaldoussoren, @ncoghlan, @vstinner, @ericsnowcurrently, @tirkarthi

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2019-02-11.21:46:00.516>
labels = ['type-security', '3.7', '3.8']
title = 'Documentation should warn about code injection from current working directory'
updated_at = <Date 2019-02-16.17:47:39.697>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/GabrielCorona'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2019-02-16.17:47:39.697>
actor = 'ncoghlan'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = []
creation = <Date 2019-02-11.21:46:00.516>
creator = 'Gabriel Corona'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 35971
keywords = []
message_count = 9.0
messages = ['335271', '335283', '335302', '335307', '335310', '335312', '335315', '335316', '335705']
nosy_count = 6.0
nosy_names = ['ronaldoussoren', 'ncoghlan', 'vstinner', 'eric.snow', 'Gabriel Corona', 'xtreak']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'security'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue35971'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.4', 'Python 3.5', 'Python 3.6', 'Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8']

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