diff --git a/examples/vulnerable_code/list_append.py b/examples/vulnerable_code/list_append.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9c4bbd63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/vulnerable_code/list_append.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import os
+
+from flask import request
+
+
+def func():
+    TAINT = request.args.get("TAINT")
+
+    cmd = []
+    cmd.append("echo")
+    cmd.append(TAINT)
+
+    os.system(" ".join(cmd))
diff --git a/pyt/cfg/expr_visitor.py b/pyt/cfg/expr_visitor.py
index 57537875..d49be28e 100644
--- a/pyt/cfg/expr_visitor.py
+++ b/pyt/cfg/expr_visitor.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 )
 from .expr_visitor_helper import (
     BUILTINS,
+    MUTATORS,
     return_connection_handler,
     SavedVariable
 )
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.module_definitions_stack = list()
         self.prev_nodes_to_avoid = list()
         self.last_control_flow_nodes = list()
+        self._within_mutating_call = False
 
         # Are we already in a module?
         if module_definitions:
@@ -578,6 +580,23 @@ def visit_Call(self, node):
             else:
                 raise Exception('Definition was neither FunctionDef or ' +
                                 'ClassDef, cannot add the function ')
+        elif (
+            not self._within_mutating_call and
+            last_attribute in MUTATORS
+            and isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
+        ):
+            # Change list.append(x) ---> list += list.append(x)
+            # This does in fact propagate as we don't know that append returns None
+            fake_aug_assign = ast.AugAssign(
+                target=node.func.value,
+                op=ast.Add,
+                value=node,
+            )
+            ast.copy_location(fake_aug_assign, node)
+            self._within_mutating_call = True  # Don't do this recursively
+            result = self.visit(fake_aug_assign)
+            self._within_mutating_call = False
+            return result
         elif last_attribute not in BUILTINS:
             # Mark the call as a blackbox because we don't have the definition
             return self.add_blackbox_or_builtin_call(node, blackbox=True)
diff --git a/pyt/cfg/expr_visitor_helper.py b/pyt/cfg/expr_visitor_helper.py
index 9667f7c1..a0df3c90 100644
--- a/pyt/cfg/expr_visitor_helper.py
+++ b/pyt/cfg/expr_visitor_helper.py
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@
     'flash',
     'jsonify'
 )
+MUTATORS = (  # list.append(x) taints list if x is tainted
+    'add',
+    'append',
+    'extend',
+    'insert',
+    'update',
+)
 
 
 def return_connection_handler(nodes, exit_node):
diff --git a/tests/main_test.py b/tests/main_test.py
index bc985629..561d8bd1 100644
--- a/tests/main_test.py
+++ b/tests/main_test.py
@@ -108,11 +108,11 @@ def test_targets_with_recursive(self):
         excluded_files = ""
 
         included_files = discover_files(targets, excluded_files, True)
-        self.assertEqual(len(included_files), 32)
+        self.assertEqual(len(included_files), 33)
 
     def test_targets_with_recursive_and_excluded(self):
         targets = ["examples/vulnerable_code/"]
         excluded_files = "inter_command_injection.py"
 
         included_files = discover_files(targets, excluded_files, True)
-        self.assertEqual(len(included_files), 31)
+        self.assertEqual(len(included_files), 32)
diff --git a/tests/vulnerabilities/vulnerabilities_test.py b/tests/vulnerabilities/vulnerabilities_test.py
index 8f5e70f1..a621f4d4 100644
--- a/tests/vulnerabilities/vulnerabilities_test.py
+++ b/tests/vulnerabilities/vulnerabilities_test.py
@@ -110,12 +110,17 @@ def test_build_sanitiser_node_dict(self):
 
         self.assertEqual(sanitiser_dict['escape'][0], cfg.nodes[3])
 
-    def run_analysis(self, path=None):
+    def run_analysis(
+        self,
+        path=None,
+        adaptor_function=is_flask_route_function,
+        trigger_file=default_trigger_word_file,
+    ):
         if path:
             self.cfg_create_from_file(path)
         cfg_list = [self.cfg]
 
-        FrameworkAdaptor(cfg_list, [], [], is_flask_route_function)
+        FrameworkAdaptor(cfg_list, [], [], adaptor_function)
         initialize_constraint_table(cfg_list)
 
         analyse(cfg_list)
@@ -123,7 +128,7 @@ def run_analysis(self, path=None):
         return find_vulnerabilities(
             cfg_list,
             default_blackbox_mapping_file,
-            default_trigger_word_file
+            trigger_file,
         )
 
     def test_find_vulnerabilities_assign_other_var(self):
@@ -470,6 +475,13 @@ def test_recursion(self):
         vulnerabilities = self.run_analysis('examples/vulnerable_code/recursive.py')
         self.assert_length(vulnerabilities, expected_length=2)
 
+    def test_list_append_taints_list(self):
+        vulnerabilities = self.run_analysis(
+            'examples/vulnerable_code/list_append.py',
+            adaptor_function=is_function,
+        )
+        self.assert_length(vulnerabilities, expected_length=1)
+
 
 class EngineDjangoTest(VulnerabilitiesBaseTestCase):
     def run_analysis(self, path):