CVE-2015-5652
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-10-05 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:59
Severity ?
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in python.exe in Python through 3.5.0 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse readline.pyd file in the current working directory. NOTE: the vendor says "It was determined that this is a longtime behavior of Python that cannot really be altered at this point."
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