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CVE-2026-5271

Possible to hijack modules in current working directory PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

pymanager included the current working directory in sys.path meaning modules could be shadowed by modules in the current working directory. As a result, if a user executes a pymanager-generated command (e.g., pip, pytest) from an attacker-controlled directory, a malicious module in that directory can be imported and executed instead of the intended package.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Python Software Foundation / pymanageraffected 26.0 before 26.1

CWE

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References

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CVE

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