CVE-2008-5983
6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
9.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
23.7%
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 configurations
References
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042751.html
secunia.com/advisories/34522
secunia.com/advisories/40194
secunia.com/advisories/42888
secunia.com/advisories/50858
secunia.com/advisories/51024
secunia.com/advisories/51040
secunia.com/advisories/51087
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-41.xml
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml
www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg586010.html
www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-untrusted-python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/28/5
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/30/2
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0027.html
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1616-1
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1448
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0122
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814
Related
6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
9.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
23.7%