CVE-2020-15523

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 4, 2020
Updated: Oct 14, 2026
Reserved: Jul 4, 2020

Description

In Python 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.8, 3.8 through 3.8.4rc1, and 3.9 through 3.9.0b4 on Windows, a Trojan horse python3.dll might be used in cases where CPython is embedded in a native application. This occurs because python3X.dll may use an invalid search path for python3.dll loading (after Py_SetPath has been used). NOTE: this issue CANNOT occur when using python.exe from a standard (non-embedded) Python installation on Windows.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://bugs.python.org/issue29778
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/21297
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0004/
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

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