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Vulnerability · NVD

CVE-2008-5983

CVE-2008-5983, Severity pending severity (CVSS —): 3 tracked apps concerned, all fixed or indeterminable on their current version.

Severity (CVSS)
-
Exploitation
0.5 %

EPSS, predicted over 30 days

Tracked apps
3
Still exposed
0

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.

EPSS 0.49% exploit very unlikely percentile 39.6%

Tracked apps referencing this CVE

For each app: the affected range, the fixing version, and where the tracked app stands today.

  • Python 3.12 Windows winget:Python.Python.3.12
    Affected <2.6.6 Fixed in 2.6.6 Latest tracked 3.12.10 patched
  • Python 3.13 Windows winget:Python.Python.3.13
    Affected <2.6.6 Fixed in 2.6.6 Latest tracked 3.13.15 patched
  • Python 3.14 Windows winget:Python.Python.3.14
    Affected <2.6.6 Fixed in 2.6.6 Latest tracked 3.14.7 patched
Vulnerable CPE configurations (2)
Vendor Product Versions
python python
All platforms (wildcard)
 <2.6.6
python python
All platforms (wildcard)
 ≥3.1.0 <3.1.3
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