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CVE-2008-5983

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.p…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
PythonPython
before 2.6.6
from 3.1.0 before 3.1.3
FedoraprojectFedora
Version 13
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10

Weakness classification

CWE-426

References