CVE-2009-0318

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: 2009-01-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the GObject Python interpreter wrapper in Gnumeric allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function (CVE-2008-5983).

Affected products

GNOME Gnumeric: all versions

References

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569648
http://secunia.com/advisories/33707
http://secunia.com/advisories/33823
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-03.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:043
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33438
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481572
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00211.html
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569648
http://secunia.com/advisories/33707
http://secunia.com/advisories/33823

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