CVE-2008-5983
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 28, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 27, 2009
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv API function in Python 2.6 and earlier, and possibly later versions, prepends an empty string to sys.path when the argv[0] argument does not contain a path separator, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [debian-bugs] 20081112 Bug#493937: [Patch] Prevent loading of Python modules in working directorymailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814
- FEDORA-2010-9652vendor-advisory
- 51087third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20090130 Re: CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric)mailing-list
- USN-1616-1vendor-advisory
- 51040third-party-advisory
- GLSA-200903-41vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20090126 CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric)mailing-list
- ADV-2010-1448vdb-entry
- 50858third-party-advisory
- [debian-bugs-rc] 20080805 Bug#484305: bicyclerepair: bike.vim imports untrusted python files from cwdmailing-list
- GLSA-200904-06vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-0122vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20090128 Re: CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric)mailing-list
- 34522third-party-advisory
- 42888third-party-advisory
- USN-1596-1vendor-advisory
- 40194third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2011:0027vendor-advisory
- USN-1613-2vendor-advisory
- 51024third-party-advisory
- USN-1613-1vendor-advisory
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