fastapi
Audited by Socket on Sep 22, 2026
2 alerts found:
AnomalySecurityThe fragment is security documentation with no evidence of malware or intentional malicious behavior. It contains insecure illustrative patterns that could cause authorization bypass or token compromise if copied directly into production: hardcoded secrets and Basic Auth credentials, username-as-token issuance, and unvalidated requested OAuth2 scopes. These are security design weaknesses, not malicious functionality.
The code is legitimate FastAPI instructional material, not apparent malware. The primary security issue is an unsafe file-save example that uses an unsanitized client filename, creating a potential path traversal or arbitrary file overwrite risk. The upload validation example also permits memory exhaustion because it reads the complete file before checking its size. Filenames should be sanitized or replaced with generated names, paths should be confined and validated, upload sizes should be enforced during streaming, and MIME types should not be trusted without content validation.