Tainted flow: 'req' from os.environ.get (line 43, credential/environment) → urllib.request.urlopen (network output)
- Category
- Data Flow
- Confidence
- 90% confidence
- Finding
Credentials or environment variables flow to a network sink. This is a high-confidence indicator of credential exfiltration.
- Content
python headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-API-Key': KEY}) try: with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as r: return r.status, json.loads(r.read().decode('utf-8')) except urllib.error.HTTPError as e: body = e.read().decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
