Replace eval() with ast.literal_eval() for security (#12212)

Co-authored-by: Carlos Mocholi <carlossmocholi@gmail.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -663,9 +663,13 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 - Fixed an issue where `HorovodStrategy.teardown()` did not complete gracefully if an exception was thrown during callback setup [#11752](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/11752)
 
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 - Fixed security vulnerabilities CVE-2020-1747 and CVE-2020-14343 caused by the `PyYAML` dependency ([#11099](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/11099))
 
 
+- Fixed security vulnerability "CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection)" ([#12212](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/12212))
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 - Fixed logging on `{test,validation}_epoch_end` with multiple dataloaders ([#11132](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/11132))
 
 

pytorch_lightning/utilities/argparse.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import os
 from abc import ABC
 from argparse import _ArgumentGroup, ArgumentParser, Namespace
+from ast import literal_eval
 from contextlib import suppress
 from functools import wraps
 from typing import Any, Callable, cast, Dict, List, Tuple, Type, TypeVar, Union
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ def parse_env_variables(cls: Type["pl.Trainer"], template: str = "PL_%(cls_name)
             # todo: specify the possible exception
             with suppress(Exception):
                 # converting to native types like int/float/bool
-                val = eval(val)
+                val = literal_eval(val)
             env_args[arg_name] = val
     return Namespace(**env_args)