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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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Popularity:
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9,726 views
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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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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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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.
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