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Command Injection: os.system with string interpolation

criticalCode regexcommand-injectionCWE-78python

What it detects

os.system passes its argument to /bin/sh -c. Any interpolated variable becomes a potential injection.

How it runs

Applied line-by-line via a tagged regex with language-specific gating. Comments are skipped. Designed for high-confidence patterns where AST parsing would be overkill.

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