CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-15523

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-07-04 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-07-04
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-427, CWE-908

Description

In Python 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.8, 3.8 through 3.8.4rc1, and 3.9 through 3.9.0b4 on Windows, a Trojan horse python3.dll might be used in cases where CPython is embedded in a native application. This occurs because python3X.dll may use an invalid search path for python3.dll loading (after Py_SetPath has been used). NOTE: this issue CANNOT occur when using python.exe from a standard (non-embedded) Python installation on Windows.

Affected configurations

• python python (>= 3.5.0 < 3.5.10) • python python (>= 3.6.0 < 3.6.12) • python python (>= 3.7.0 < 3.7.9) • python python (>= 3.8.0 < 3.8.4) • python python 3.8.4 • python python 3.9.0 • netapp snapcenter

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

References