CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-5652

Published: Oct 06, 2015 | Modified: Nov 28, 2016
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

Untrusted search path vulnerability in python.exe in Python through 3.5.0 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse readline.pyd file in the current working directory. NOTE: the vendor says It was determined that this is a longtime behavior of Python that cannot really be altered at this point.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Python Python * 3.5.0 (including)
Python2.7 Ubuntu upstream *
Python3.2 Ubuntu upstream *
Python3.4 Ubuntu upstream *
Python3.5 Ubuntu upstream *

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