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CVE-2005-1632 Cheetah Path Search Order Hijacking

HighCVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.44%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

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 products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
tavis rudd cheetah = 0.9.15 No fix listed
tavis rudd cheetah = 0.9.16 No fix listed
pypi cheetah(PyPI) >= 0.9.15, <= 0.9.16 No fix listed
debian/cheetah(Debian:12) < 0.9.16-1 0.9.16-1
debian/cheetah(Debian:13) < 0.9.16-1 0.9.16-1
debian/cheetah(Debian:14) < 0.9.16-1 0.9.16-1

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