{"id":"GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx","summary":"Cheetah Path Search Order Hijacking","details":"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/`.","aliases":["CVE-2005-1632","PYSEC-2026-622"],"modified":"2026-07-06T08:11:24.681242443Z","published":"2022-05-01T02:00:38Z","database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-427"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2023-09-18T23:34:20Z","nvd_published_at":"2005-05-17T04:00:00Z"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1632"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/cheetahtemplate/cheetah"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20050430021153/http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7070332&forum_id=1542"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"cheetah","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/cheetah"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0.9.15"},{"last_affected":"0.9.16"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx/GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}