# Overly Broad Exception Handler

- ID: python-broad-exception-handler
- Severity: LOW
- CWE: CWE-396 (CWE-396)
- Languages: Python
- Frameworks: django, flask, fastapi

## Description

Detects overly broad exception handlers (bare except: or except BaseException)
that catch system exceptions like KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit, which should
not be caught in normal error handling.

## Remediation

Catch specific exceptions or use Exception instead of bare except or BaseException.

```python
try:
    process_data()
except ValueError as e:
    logger.error(f"Invalid value: {e}")
except IOError as e:
    logger.error(f"IO error: {e}")
```

Learn more: https://shoulder.dev/learn/python/cwe-396/broad-exception

## Documentation

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