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CVE-2008-5983

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9 EPSS 0.51%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2009-01-28 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2008-5983
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.9
EPSS
0.51%

Original NVD 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.