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CWE-914: Improper Control of Dynamically-Identified Variables

Base Incomplete

The product does not properly restrict reading from or writing to dynamically-identified variables.

How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
  1. Implementation

    For any externally-influenced input, check the input against an allowlist of internal program variables that are allowed to be modified.

  2. Implementation, Architecture and Design

    Refactor the code so that internal program variables do not need to be dynamically identified.

Source: MITRE CWE-914

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    CVE-2026-34444 Public exploit

    Lupa has a Sandbox escape and RCE due to incomplete attribute_filter enforcement in getattr / setattr

    Lupa integrates the runtimes of Lua or LuaJIT2 into CPython. In 2.6 and earlier, attribute_filter is not consistently applied when attributes are accessed through built-in functions like getattr and setattr. This allows an attacker to bypass the intended rest…