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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-01-28T02:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T11:13:14.117Z

Reserved: 2009-01-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-5983

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-01-28T02:30:00.233

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:03:18.393

Link: CVE-2008-5983

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-08-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-5983 - Bugzilla