VDB
CVE-2008-5983
CVE-2008-5983
PUBLISHED
CVSS 6.900000095367432 MEDIUM
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.
EPSS 0.49% · 39.9th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 2.0
6.900000095367432
EPSS Score
0.49%
39.9th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| python | python | 3.1.0, 0 |
| n/a | n/a | * |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 11.10, 8.04, 11.04 |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 13 |
Timeline
- Jan 28, 2009 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 21, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 15, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 21, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 12, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 6, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 30, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- FEDORA-2010-9652 vendor-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
- ADV-2010-1448 vdb
- [debian-bugs-rc] 20080805 Bug#484305: bicyclerepair: bike.vim imports untrusted python files from cwd mailing-list
- RHSA-2011:0027 vendor-advisory
- USN-1613-2 vendor-advisory
- 51024 third-party-advisory
- [debian-bugs] 20081112 Bug#493937: [Patch] Prevent loading of Python modules in working directory mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814 url
- 51087 third-party-advisory
- USN-1616-1 vendor-advisory
- 51040 third-party-advisory
- GLSA-200903-41 vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20090126 CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric) mailing-list
- 50858 third-party-advisory
- GLSA-200904-06 vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-0122 vdb
- [oss-security] 20090128 Re: CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric) mailing-list
- 34522 third-party-advisory
- 42888 third-party-advisory
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