CVE

Id
36100  
CVE No.
CVE-2008-5983  
Status
Candidate  
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.  
Phase
Assigned (20090127)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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