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CVE-2009-3894

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in dstat before 0.7.0 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Python module in (1) the current working directory or (2) a certain subdirectory of the current working directory.

Affected products

• Dag.Wieers Dstat: through 0.6.9; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.5.2 (+17)

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293497
• http://osvdb.org/60511
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37445
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37457
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-04.xml
• http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/tools/dstat/ChangeLog
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:341
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1619.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37131
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538459
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8969
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293497

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