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CVE-2008-5983

Date: January 27, 2009

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.

Severity Score

7.4

Related Resources (27)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-5983

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5983

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/30/2

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1616-1

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1448

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042751.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/40194

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-41.xml

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/28/5

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5983

Url: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg586010.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0027.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34522

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51087

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51040

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51024

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/50858

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42888

Url: http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-untrusted-python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0122

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-5983

Severity Score

7.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Untrusted Search Path

CWE-426

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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Date: January 27, 2009

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