Security vulnerabilities and automated fixes for aws issues
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A critical command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) was discovered and patched in `utils/aws/resume.py`, where unsanitized user input was passed directly to `os.system()`, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands. The fix replaces the dangerous `os.system()` call with Python's `subprocess` module, which provides proper argument separation and eliminates shell interpretation of metacharacters. This post breaks down how the vulnerability worked, how it was exploited, and what every d