Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

django-haystack/django-haystack

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Fixes

CVEs

CRITICAL

Peak severity

100.0%

Coverage

Highlights

Code Injection: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.

haystack/backends/elasticsearch_backend.py: most-fixed (2 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.

2 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Code Injection: Direct eval() on untrusted search input enables arbitrary code execution; the fix replacing it with ast.literal_eval() is the only secure pattern.

Code Injection: A later refactor reintroduced eval() via _to_python, showing that the vulnerable pattern can silently return; this fix is incomplete and must be hardened.