CVE-2009-4081

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

Untrusted search path vulnerability in dstat before r3199 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Python module in the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-3894.

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://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:341
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293497
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:341

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