diff --git a/mobsf/StaticAnalyzer/views/android/code_analysis.py b/mobsf/StaticAnalyzer/views/android/code_analysis.py
index 27aa5a0e28..e5bf46e5b5 100755
--- a/mobsf/StaticAnalyzer/views/android/code_analysis.py
+++ b/mobsf/StaticAnalyzer/views/android/code_analysis.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def get_perm_rules(checksum, perm_rules, android_permissions):
             return None
         dynamic_rules = []
         with perm_rules.open('r') as perm_file:
-            prules = yaml.load(perm_file, Loader=yaml.FullLoader)
+            prules = yaml.safe_load(perm_file)
         for p in prules:
             if p['id'] in android_permissions.keys():
                 dynamic_rules.append(p)
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ def code_analysis(checksum, app_dir, typ, manifest_file, android_permissions):
                 try:
                     content = pfile.read_text('utf-8', 'ignore')
                     # Certain file path cannot be read in windows
-                except Exception:
+                except OSError:
                     continue
                 relative_java_path = pfile.as_posix().replace(src, '')
                 urls, urls_nf, emails_nf = url_n_email_extract(
diff --git a/mobsf/__main__.py b/mobsf/__main__.py
index 6f93abfaa4..5e534e1eec 100644
--- a/mobsf/__main__.py
+++ b/mobsf/__main__.py
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ def main():
     try:
         if not connection.introspection.table_names():
             db()
-    except Exception:
+    except Exception as exp:
+        print(f"Database initialization error: {exp}")
         db()
     listen = '127.0.0.1:8000'
     if len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1]:
diff --git a/mobsf/install/windows/setup.py b/mobsf/install/windows/setup.py
index fb64712e8d..982b441d32 100755
--- a/mobsf/install/windows/setup.py
+++ b/mobsf/install/windows/setup.py
@@ -297,12 +297,10 @@ def generate_secret():
     (pubkey, privkey) = rsa.newkeys(2048)
 
     # Save private and pub key
-    priv_key_file = open(CONFIG['MobSF']['priv_key'], 'w')
-    priv_key_file.write(privkey.save_pkcs1().decode('utf-8'))
-    priv_key_file.close()
-    pub_key_file = open(CONFIG['MobSF']['pub_key'], 'w')
-    pub_key_file.write(pubkey.save_pkcs1().decode('utf-8'))
-    pub_key_file.close()
+    with open(CONFIG['MobSF']['priv_key'], 'w') as priv_key_file:
+        priv_key_file.write(privkey.save_pkcs1().decode('utf-8'))
+    with open(CONFIG['MobSF']['pub_key'], 'w') as pub_key_file:
+        pub_key_file.write(pubkey.save_pkcs1().decode('utf-8'))
     config_path = os.path.join(
         expanduser('~'),
         '.MobSF',
diff --git a/scripts/update_android_permissions.py b/scripts/update_android_permissions.py
index d0e4f77b10..5f58ca40f2 100644
--- a/scripts/update_android_permissions.py
+++ b/scripts/update_android_permissions.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
+import importlib.util
 import re
 
 import requests
@@ -45,11 +46,11 @@
                                            description]
 
 # check the permissions we currently have in dvm_permissions.py
-DVM_PERMISSIONS = {}
-eval(compile(open('../mobsf/StaticAnalyzer/views/'
-                  'android/kb/dvm_permissions.py').read(),
-             '<string>',
-             'exec'))
+dvm_permissions_path = '../mobsf/StaticAnalyzer/views/android/kb/dvm_permissions.py'
+spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("dvm_permissions", dvm_permissions_path)
+dvm_module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+spec.loader.exec_module(dvm_module)
+DVM_PERMISSIONS = dvm_module.DVM_PERMISSIONS
 MANIFEST_PERMISSIONS = DVM_PERMISSIONS['MANIFEST_PERMISSION']
 
 for permission_name in online_permissions: