CVE-2008-5983

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-5983
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-01-28 02:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUntrusted 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-426 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Python Python All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-1613-2: Python 2.4 vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA50858 - Ubuntu update for python - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Not Applicable
oss-security - Re: CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Permissions Required
USN-1616-1: Python 3.1 vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
USN-1613-1: Python 2.5 vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Support | Red Hat af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA51087 - Ubuntu update for python3.1 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Not Applicable
Old Nabble - debian-bugs-rc - Bug#484305: bicyclerepair: bike.vim imports untrusted python files from cwd af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.nabble.com Broken Link
[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: python-2.6.4-27.fc13 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Permissions Required
Security Advisory SA51024 - Ubuntu update for python2.5 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Not Applicable
Security Advisory SA51040 - Ubuntu update for python2.4 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Not Applicable
Red Hat update for python - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Not Applicable
oss-security - CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- gedit: Untrusted search path af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Bug#493937: [Patch] Prevent loading of Python modules in working directo af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mail-archive.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Eye of GNOME: Untrusted search path af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Gentoo update for gedit - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Not Applicable
oss-security - Re: CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Bug 482814 – CVE-2008-5983 python: untrusted python modules search path af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Fedora update for python - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Not Applicable
USN-1596-1: Python 2.6 vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Bug#493937: [Patch] Prevent loading of Python modules in working directo MITRE www.mail-archive.com
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