Florian Bruhin <python....@the-compiler.org> added the comment:

> It is also not safe to pass data downloaded from untrusted source to eval().

To make matters worse, it's downloaded via HTTP (rather than HTTPS) - so anyone 
who can mess with the network of a machine running the Python testsuite can run 
arbitrary code on that machine.

(I contacted secur...@python.org about this a couple of hours ago, but I guess 
this is effectively public now anyways :D)

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