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CVE-2008-5983
published 2009-01-28

CVE-2008-5983: 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…

PriorityP420medium6.9CVSS 2.0
AVLACMAuNCCICAC
EPSS
0.51%
40.1th percentile
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.

Affected

67 ranges· showing 25
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
csoundcsound
csoundcsound>= 0 < 5.08.2~dfsg-1.15.08.2~dfsg-1.1
csoundcsound>= 0 < 5.08.2~dfsg-1.15.08.2~dfsg-1.1
csoundcsound>= 0 < 5.08.2~dfsg-1.15.08.2~dfsg-1.1
csoundcsound>= 0 < 5.08.2~dfsg-1.15.08.2~dfsg-1.1
debiancsound< csound 5.08.2~dfsg-1.1 (bookworm)csound 5.08.2~dfsg-1.1 (bookworm)
debiandia< dia 0.96.1-7.1 (bookworm)dia 0.96.1-7.1 (bookworm)
debianeog< eog 2.22.3-2 (bookworm)eog 2.22.3-2 (bookworm)
debianepiphany-browser< epiphany-browser 2.22.3-7 (bookworm)epiphany-browser 2.22.3-7 (bookworm)
debiangedit< gedit 2.22.3-2 (bookworm)gedit 2.22.3-2 (bookworm)
debiangnumeric< gnumeric 1.8.4-3 (bookworm)gnumeric 1.8.4-3 (bookworm)
debiannautilus-python< nautilus-python 0.4.3-3.2 (bookworm)nautilus-python 0.4.3-3.2 (bookworm)
debianvim< vim 2:7.2.025-2 (bookworm)vim 2:7.2.025-2 (bookworm)
diadia
diadia>= 0 < 0.96.1-7.10.96.1-7.1
diadia>= 0 < 0.96.1-7.10.96.1-7.1
diadia>= 0 < 0.96.1-7.10.96.1-7.1
diadia>= 0 < 0.96.1-7.10.96.1-7.1
fedoraprojectfedora
fedoraprojectfedora
gnomeeog

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.06.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
osv6.9MEDIUM
vendor_debian6.9LOW
vendor_redhat6.9MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu6.9MEDIUM
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