[Python-Dev] Re: Proposal to deprecate mailcap

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 5:47 AM Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:

After talking about this in the SC today, we agreed to deprecate mailcap under the auspices of PEP 594: https://github.com/python/peps/commit/701999a91dc5f976c00d5bde1510226ebd9c78... .

Good. I proposed https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/91951 to implement the deprecation in Python 3.11. Fixing or documenting the shell injection vulnerability CVE-2015-20107 is still being discussed at: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/68966 Victor