{"id":"PYSEC-2026-622","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","GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx"],"modified":"2026-07-06T08:00:10.395718009Z","published":"2026-07-02T14:13:19.492605Z","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"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/cheetah"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx"}],"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/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/cheetah/PYSEC-2026-622.yaml"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}