CVE-2008-5983

MediumCVSS 6.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.9/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-426

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 28, 2009
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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