But it's a widely known fact that, if you want code to run in a browser, Python is simply no good – you'll just have to turn to JavaScript," it notes. "Now, however, that may be about to change." ...

Unpatched since 2007 The vulnerability is in the Python tarfile package, in code that uses un-sanitized tarfile.extract () function or the built-in defaults of tarfile.extractall ().

Even so, the Experimental - Python for the Web (Preview) extension in the VS Code Marketplace has been installed 283 times as of this writing (see screenshot above). The item description lists the ...