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TITLE:
Cheetah Insecure Module Importing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15386

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15386/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Cheetah 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5102/

DESCRIPTION:
Brian Bird has reported a vulnerability in Cheetah, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to Cheetah searching for modules in
the world-writable "/tmp" directory before looking in the PythonPath
when importing modules. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary
code with escalated privileges by placing a malicious module in the
"/tmp" directory.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 0.9.17-rc1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Brian Bird

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7070332&forum_id=1542

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