CVE-2012-5659 (GCVE-0-2012-5659)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-03-12 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by modifying the PYTHONPATH environment variable to reference a malicious Python module.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
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| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854011 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/abrt.git/commit/… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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