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Advisory details: pypa / cheetah/PYSEC-2026-622
Advisory ID pypa/cheetah/PYSEC-2026-622
Aliases CVE-2005-1632
GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx
PYSEC-2026-622
Summary Cheetah Path Search Order Hijacking Cheetah 0.9.15 and 0.9.16 searches the `/tmp` directory for modules before using the paths in the `PYTHONPATH` variable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious module in `/tmp/`.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
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Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/cheetahtemplate/cheetah
https://pypi.org/project/cheetah
https://web.archive.org/web/20050430021153/http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7070332&forum_id=1542
CVE-2005-1632 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1632
GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx
No exploits are available.

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Patch URL
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There are no known vectors.

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