Cheetah: Untrusted module search path

Background Cheetah is a Python powered template engine and code generator. Description Brian Bird discovered that Cheetah searches for modules in the world-writable /tmp directory. Impact A malicious local user could place a module containing arbitrary code in /tmp, which when imported would run...

CVE-2005-1632

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/...