PyInstaller has local privilege escalation vulnerability

ImpactDue to a special entry being appended to sys.path during the bootstrap process of a PyInstaller-frozen application, and due to the bootstrap script attempting to load an optional module for bytecode decryption while this entry is still present in sys.path, an application built with...

CVE-2025-59042

PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package. Due to a special entry being appended to sys.path during the bootstrap process of a PyInstaller-frozen application, and due to the bootstrap script attempting to load an optional module for bytecode decryptio...

SUSE CVE-2025-59042

PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package. Due to a special entry being appended to sys.path during the bootstrap process of a PyInstaller-frozen application, and due to the bootstrap script attempting to load an optional module for bytecode decryptio...

CVE-2025-59042 PyInstaller has local privilege escalation vulnerability

PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package. Due to a special entry being appended to sys.path during the bootstrap process of a PyInstaller-frozen application, and due to the bootstrap script attempting to load an optional module for bytecode decryptio...

PYSEC-2020-175

In PyInstaller before version 3.6, only on Windows, a local privilege escalation vulnerability is present in this particular case: If a software using PyInstaller in "onefile" mode is launched by a privileged user at least more than the current one which have his "TempPath" resolving to a world...

PYSEC-2020-175

In PyInstaller before version 3.6, only on Windows, a local privilege escalation vulnerability is present in this particular case: If a software using PyInstaller in "onefile" mode is launched by a privileged user at least more than the current one which have his "TempPath" resolving to a world...

Privilege escalation

In PyInstaller before version 3.6, only on Windows, a local privilege escalation vulnerability is present in this particular case: If a software using PyInstaller in "onefile" mode is launched by a privileged user at least more than the current one which have his "TempPath" resolving to a world...

CVE-2019-16784 Local Privilege Escalation present only on the Windows version of PyInstaller

In PyInstaller before version 3.6, only on Windows, a local privilege escalation vulnerability is present in this particular case: If a software using PyInstaller in "onefile" mode is launched by a privileged user at least more than the current one which have his "TempPath" resolving to a world...