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suspicious-lxml-import (S410)

Derived from the flake8-bandit linter.

Warning: This rule has been removed and its documentation is only available for historical reasons.

Removed

This rule was removed as the lxml library has been modified to address known vulnerabilities and unsafe defaults. As such, the defusedxml library is no longer necessary, defusedxml has deprecated its lxml module.

What it does

Checks for imports of the lxml module.

Why is this bad?

Using various methods from the lxml module to parse untrusted XML data is known to be vulnerable to XML attacks. Replace vulnerable imports with the equivalent defusedxml package.

Example

import lxml