CVE-2005-1632: Tavis Rudd Cheetah

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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/.

Affected products

• Tavis Rudd Cheetah: version 0.9.15 only; version 0.9.16 only

Published 2005-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.