CVE-2008-5983

Description

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.

Weakness classification

• CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org
• cve@mitre.org — Broken Link