Security Risks
Special care must be taken when using eval with data from an untrusted source. For instance, assuming that the get_data function gets data from the Internet, this Python code is insecure:
An attacker could supply the program with the string "session.update(authenticated=True)" as data, which would update the session dictionary to set an authenticated key to be True. To remedy this, all data which will be used with eval must be escaped, or it must be run without access to potentially harmful functions.
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