George Sakkis <george.sak...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> On the surface this seems like a potential directory traversal attack
> hole, although I couldn't get past 'pkg' by passing '../../../', so I 
> guess there must be other checks before attempting the import.

I rushed to post; it turns out one *can* access packages in parent directories, 
so I think it's accurate to describe it as a directory traversal hole.

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