{"id":"CVE-2022-35861","aliases":["EUVD-2022-38734","GHSA-7rf7-7xf5-v9v3","openSUSE-SU-2022:10183-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:12200-1"],"status":"published","title":"pyenv 1.2.24 through 2.3.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a .python-version file in...","description":"pyenv 1.2.24 through 2.3.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a .python-version file in the current working directory. An attacker can craft a Python version string in .python-version to execute shims under their control. (Shims are executables that pass a command along to a specific version of pyenv. The version string is used to construct the path to the command, and there is no validation of whether the version specified is a valid version. 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