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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 18:32:43 +0300
From: Georgi Guninski <gguninski@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ipython3 may execute code from the current working directory

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 11:43 PM Mats Wichmann <mats@...hmann.us> wrote:

>
> there have been more than one security concern about the way this makes
> it possible for untrusted modules to get loaded.
>
> [1]  https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.path

Is the interactive python shell vulnerable to the same problem:

guest3@...ntu20:~/tests$ cat path.py
import sys
print(sys.path)
guest3@...ntu20:~/tests$ python3
Python 3.8.10 (default, Jun  2 2021, 10:49:15)
[GCC 9.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import path
['', '/usr/lib/python38.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.8',
'/usr/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages',
'/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
>>>

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