CVE-2008-4394: Gentoo Portage

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in Portage before 2.1.4.5 include the current working directory in the Python search path, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a modified Python module that is loaded by the (1) ys-apps/portage, (2) net-mail/fetchmail, (3) app-editors/leo ebuilds, and other ebuilds.

Affected products

• Gentoo Portage: up to and including 2.1.4.4; version 2.0.51.22 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.3.10 only; version 2.1.3.11 only

Published 2008-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.