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Python Security Vulnerability Egrep
# this command will return places where the application shells out or dynamically executes code:
egrep -r --include "*.py" -e "exec\(|eval\(|subprocess|popen" .
# DJANGO: find places where HTML encoding is turned off via the "safe" attribute:
grep -r --include "*.py" --include "*.html" -e "|safe" .
# DJANGO: find places where unsafe SQL queries are executed:
egrep -r --include "*.py" -e "\.(raw|execute)\(" .
# Non zero values indicate that some sort of CSRF protection is probably enabled.
# run without "| wc -l" to check CSRF-enabled endpoints and compare that list
# against all endpoints
egrep -r "(?i)csrf" . | wc -l
# returns database connection objects. look for hardcoded credentials
egrep -r --include "*.py" -e "(MySQLdb\.connect|MySQLDatabase|psycopg2\.connect|sqlalchemy\.create_engine|MongoClient|connect)\(" .
# returns hardcoded credentials
egrep -r --include "*.py" -e "(user|username|pass|password)\s*\=\s*\".*\"" .
# returns hardcoded port
egrep -r --include "*.py" -e "port\s*\=\s*\d+" .
# returns crypto operations
egrep -r --include "*.py" -e "(DES|AES|Crypto|Cipher|hashlib|Random|md5|sha1|sha256|sha512)" .
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