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CVE-2025–50817: vulnerability in python-future package

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
security

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked CVE, GitHub advisory, and vulnerability references, then determine how python-future is used and supported in PyHive. Done means documenting whether PyHive can remediate the issue and, if so, identifying a tested dependency or project change; the issue names no files or tests.

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Description

There is an vulnerability CVE-2025–50817 discovered in the python-future package that affects the package. Since that package already reaches its end of support, would there be any fix taken by PyHive regarding this vulnerability?

References
https://www.wiz.io/vulnerability-database/cve/cve-2025-50817
https://medium.com/@abcd_68700/cve-2025-50817-python-future-module-arbitrary-code-execution-via-unintended-import-of-test-py-f0818ea93cf4
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-50817

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