CVE-2009-0314: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python module in gedit allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function (CVE-2008-5983).

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 9 only
• Gnome Libpeas: before 0.5.3 (fixed in 0.5.3)

Published 2009-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.