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CVE-2005-1632

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-05-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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/.

Affected products

• Tavis Rudd Cheetah: 0.9.15, 0.9.16

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/15386
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7070332&forum_id=1542
• http://www.osvdb.org/16622
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15386
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7070332&forum_id=1542
• http://www.osvdb.org/16622

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