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EUVD-2026-130896
European Vulnerability Database identifier assigned by ENISAReserved
2026-10-02 06:33
Assigner
ENISA
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CVE-2008-5983 (GCVE-0-2008-5983)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-01-28 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:13
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
23 references
Date Public
2008-08-05 00:00
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