Highlights
Auth Bypass: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.
src/pydash/helpers.py: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
2 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Remote Code Execution: Attackers who control dotted paths passed to dynamic evaluation methods like `invoke` can traverse to Python's internal dunder attributes (such as `__globals__` and `__builtins__`) to execute arbitrary system commands.
Auth Bypass: Bypassing restricted-key validations allows unauthorized read or write access to sensitive object properties, potentially overriding constructor properties or internal class attributes via unvalidated path evaluation.