This should have been obvious to me for a longer time, but until earlier today I did not really realize the severity of the issues caused by str.format on untrusted user input. It came up as a way to bypass the Jinja2 Sandbox in a way that would permit r...

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Introduction In the previous post we saw how a Go service can call a Python service using gRPC. Using gRPC to connect a Go and Python program together can be a great choice, but there’s a complexity price that goes with it. You need to manage one more ser... (more…)

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