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Abdulrah33m's Blog
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Abdulrah33m's Blog is a personal blog at blog.abdulrah33m.com about security and programming. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Prototype Pollution in Python”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a security write-up on a prototype-pollution-like bug in Python. The one linked post warns that exposing code that calls setattr on untrusted input is risky.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Prototype Pollution in Python5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-01-05
What Hacker News says?
the actual goods: https://blog.abdulrah33m.com/prototype-pollution-in-python/ with the tl;dr of "if you expose code that uses `setattr` on untrusted content, watch out"
Comment linking /prototype-pollution-in-python/
on “Prototype pollution-like bug variant discovered in Python”Submitted Prototype Pollution in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prototype Pollution in Python (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prototype Pollution in Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prototype Pollution in Python as a story · 1 points
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