CVE-2008-5983

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 1
Downstream
RHSA-2011:0027
Modified
Published: 28 Jan 2009, 02:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 11:13

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
28/100
CVSS Score
6.9 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.12% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

28 Jan 2009, 02:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 11:13
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.12%• Percentile: 30%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-426•Untrusted Search Path

    The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    8.04 | 10.04 | 11.04 | 11.10

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    13

  • python•python

    < 2.6.6 | ≥ 3.1.0, < 3.1.3

References (23)