Advisories for Pypi/Intake package

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Intake has a Command Injection via shell() Expansion in Parameter Defaults

The shell() syntax within parameter default values appears to be automatically expanded during the catalog parsing process. If a catalog contains a parameter default such as shell(), the command may be executed when the catalog source is accessed. This means that if a user loads a malicious catalog YAML, embedded commands could execute on the host system. This behavior could potentially be classified as OS Command Injection / Unsafe Shell …