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# Security Considerations

The following modules have specific security considerations:

- `cgi`: CGI security considerations

- `hashlib`: all constructors take a «usedforsecurity» keyword-only argument disabling known insecure and blocked algorithms

- `http.server` is not suitable for production use, only implementing basic security checks. See the security considerations.

- `logging`: Logging configuration uses eval()

- `multiprocessing`: Connection.recv() uses pickle

- `pickle`: Restricting globals in pickle

- `random` shouldn’t be used for security purposes, use `secrets` instead

- `shelve`: shelve is based on pickle and thus unsuitable for dealing with untrusted sources

- `ssl`: SSL/TLS security considerations

- `subprocess`: Subprocess security considerations

- `tempfile`: mktemp is deprecated due to vulnerability to race conditions

- `xml`: XML vulnerabilities

- `zipfile`: maliciously prepared .zip files can cause disk volume exhaustion