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CVE-2008-5983

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2009-01-28 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Python PythonCanonical Ubuntu LinuxFedoraproject Fedora

Weakness Type

CWE-426

References