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JVNDB-2015-000141

Vulnerability from jvndb - Published: 2015-10-01 05:11 - Updated:2015-10-08 06:25

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN) - -

Summary

Python for Windows may insecurely load dynamic libraries

Details

Python for Windows contains an issue with the DLL search path, which may lead to insecurely loading a DLL called readline.pyd. Takashi Yoshikawa of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.

References

Type

URL

	JVN	http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN49503705/index.html
	CVE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5652
	NVD	https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-5652
	No Mapping(CWE-Other)	https://www.ipa.go.jp/en/security/vulnerabilities/cwe.html

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Python Software Foundation

Python

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CVE-2015-5652 (GCVE-0-2015-5652)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-10-05 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:59

Summary

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."

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

jpcert jpcert root

References

5 references

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http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN49503705/index.html	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN

Date Public

2015-10-01 00:00

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