Finding Security Vulnerabilities with Bandit
What Bandit checks
Bandit scans for patterns like:
- use of
evaleval subprocesssubprocesscalls without safety- hardcoded passwords
- insecure temporary files
Run
bandit -r your_packagebandit -r your_packageExample finding
danger_eval.py
# Bandit will warn about eval usage
user_input = "2 + 2"
result = eval(user_input)danger_eval.py
# Bandit will warn about eval usage
user_input = "2 + 2"
result = eval(user_input)Tip
- Treat Bandit warnings as “review required”, not always “bug”.
- Combine with dependency scanning in CI.
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