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[GHSA] GHSA-89v8-rhwq-hf77 (medium) — asteval has a Sandbox Escape via BaseException Subclasses

highgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-08-20

GHSA-89v8-rhwq-hf77 Severity: medium CVE: CVE-2026-55244

asteval has a Sandbox Escape via BaseException Subclasses

## Summary

An attacker who can supply expressions to `asteval.Interpreter.eval()` can raise `SystemExit`, `KeyboardInterrupt`, `GeneratorExit`, or `BaseException` from inside the sandbox. These exceptions are subclasses of `BaseException` but not `Exception`, so they bypass the `ex

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Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-89v8-rhwq-hf77