FKIE_CVE-2008-5983
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-01-28 02:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:01
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| python | python | * | |
| python | python | * | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 13 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 10.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 11.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 11.10 |
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