ghsa-4jhg-wfq8-3vgm
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-17 05:10
Modified
2025-04-09 04:03
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2008-5983"
  ],
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2009-01-28T02:30:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-4jhg-wfq8-3vgm",
  "modified": "2025-04-09T04:03:32Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T05:10:00Z",
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