🛡️ CVE-2005-1632 — cheetah

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-427 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Cheetah Path Search Order Hijacking

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/.

Weakness class

CVE-2005-1632 is classified as CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element. A writable directory appears in a search path, so a planted file can be loaded in place of the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2005-1632 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cheetah (from 0.9.15)

Timeline and source

Published on 1 May 2022 and last revised on 6 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
web.archive.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-427
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-01
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cheetah 0.9.15 —

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