Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.1
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

agentverus-scanner fails to analyze compiled Python bytecode files in companion code directories, allowing attackers to bypass security scanning by shipping malicious pycache entries alongside benign source files. Attackers can execute arbitrary Python bytecode on import while the scanner reports a CERTIFIED verdict with high trust scores in both static and semantic analysis modes.

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