CVE-2008-5983 (GCVE-0-2008-5983)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-01-28 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:13
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0122 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/51024 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2008-08-05 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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