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Cheetah Insecure Module Importing Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA15386
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Release Date:
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2005-05-17
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Last Update:
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2005-05-19
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Cheetah 0.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-1632 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Brian Bird has reported a vulnerability in Cheetah, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to Cheetah searching for modules in the world-writable "/tmp" directory before looking in the PythonPath when importing modules. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges by placing a malicious module in the "/tmp" directory.
Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 0.9.17-rc1.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Brian Bird
Changelog:
2005-05-19: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7070332&forum_id=1542
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