CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-1632
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-05-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Cheetah 0.9.15 and 0.9.16 searches the /tmp directory for modules before using the paths in the PYTHONPATH variable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious module in /tmp/.
Affected configurations
• tavis rudd cheetah 0.9.15
• tavis rudd cheetah 0.9.16
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15386 Vendor Advisory
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7070332&forum_id=1542 Patch
- http://www.osvdb.org/16622 www.osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15386 Vendor Advisory
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7070332&forum_id=1542 Patch
- http://www.osvdb.org/16622 www.osvdb.org