CVE-2015-5652 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2015-5652

Untrusted search path vulnerability in python.exe in Python through 3.5.0...

Vulnerability Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in python.exe in Python through 3.5.0 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse readline.pyd file in the current working directory. NOTE: the vendor says "It was determined that this is a longtime behavior of Python that cannot really be altered at this point."

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

python
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 5th, 2015
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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