{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2008-08-06T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "python: untrusted python modules search path",
    "id" : "482814",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "3.7",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv API function in Python 2.6 and earlier, and possibly later versions, 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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2011-01-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0027",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "python-0:2.4.3-43.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5983\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5983" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-5983",
  "csaw" : false
}