Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-5983 to the following vulnerability:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySysSetArgv API function in Python before 2.6 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: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983 http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg586010.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-untrusted-python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-2089 to the following vulnerability:

The audioop module in Python 2.7 and 3.2 does not verify the relationships between size arguments and byte string lengths, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via crafted arguments, as demonstrated by a call to audioop.reverse with a one-byte string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1634.

References: [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue7673

Public PoC (from [1]): $ python -c "import audioop; audioop.reverse('X', 2)" Fatal Python error: Inconsistent interned string state. Abandon

Last updated 24 July 2024

An issue was discovered in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.5.7, 3.6.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4. The email module wrongly parses email addresses that contain multiple @ characters. An application that uses the email module and implements some kind of checks on the From/To headers of a message could be tricked into accepting an email address that should be denied. An attack may be the same as in CVE-2019-11340; however, this CVE applies to Python more generally.