Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS : SimpleEval vulnerability (USN-8301-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8301-1 advisory. Byambadalai Sumiya discovered that SimpleEval did not properly restrict attribute access and...

Code Injection

SimpleEval is vulnerable to code injection. The vulnerability is due to objects leaking dangerous modules through to direct access inside the sandbox, where dangerous functions or modules could be accessed by passing them as callbacks to other safe functions to call...

CVE-2026-32640 (SimpleEval) Objects (including modules) can leak dangerous modules through to direct access inside the sandbox.

SimpleEval is a library for adding evaluatable expressions into python projects. Prior to 1.0.5, objects including modules can leak dangerous modules through to direct access inside the sandbox. If the objects you've passed in as names to SimpleEval have modules or other disallowed / dangerous...

Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes

Overview simpleeval is an A simple, safe single expression evaluator library. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes in the evaluation when objects passed as names contain modules or other disallowed objec...

GHSA-44VG-5WV2-H2HG SimpleEval: Objects (including modules) can leak dangerous modules through to direct access inside the sandbox

Impact If the objects passed in as names to SimpleEval have modules or other disallowed / dangerous objects available as attrs. Additionally, dangerous functions or modules could be accessed by passing them as callbacks to other safe functions to call. Examples found by @ByamB4: Any module where...