CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-5983.md

### [CVE-2008-5983](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983)
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### Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv API function in Python 2.6 and earlier, and possibly later versions, prepends an empty string to sys.path when the argv[0] argument does not contain a path separator, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1616-1

#### Github
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