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Cheetah Path Search Order Hijacking

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 18, 2023

Package

pip cheetah (pip)

Affected versions

>= 0.9.15, <= 0.9.16

Patched versions

None

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/.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 17, 2005
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Reviewed Sep 18, 2023
Last updated Sep 18, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2005-1632

GHSA ID

GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx

Source code

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