CVE-2012-5659 (GCVE-0-2012-5659)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-03-12 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:38
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Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by modifying the PYTHONPATH environment variable to reference a malicious Python module.
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CWE
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