AZL-109584

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Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-109584.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-109584
Upstream
  • CVE-2008-5983
Published
2009-01-28T02:30:00Z
Modified
2026-10-27T05:36:16Z
Summary
CVE-2008-5983 affecting package python-py 1.11.0-1
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / python-py

Package

Name
python-py
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/python-py

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last Affected
1.11.0-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-109584.json"