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Cheetah Insecure Module Importing Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA15386  
Release Date: 2005-05-17
Last Update: 2005-05-19

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Cheetah 0.x

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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