Tainted flow: 'req' from os.environ.get (line 70, credential/environment) → urllib.request.urlopen (network output)
Critical
- Category
- Data Flow
- Content
method="POST", ) try: with urlopen(req, timeout=150) as response: return json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8")) except HTTPError as e: body = e.read().decode("utf-8") if e.fp else ""- Confidence
- 94% confidence
- Finding
- The request sent via urlopen includes multiple environment-derived values in headers, most notably the API key and session/application metadata, and the destination base URL is also overrideable through LINKFOX_TOOL_GATEWAY. That creates a real exfiltration path: if the environment is influenced by an untrusted party, secrets and contextual metadata can be transmitted to an attacker-controlled endpoint.
