Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5987

RCE

Title: Gnome Eog RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5987.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jan 28, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5987: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Eye of GNOME (eog) 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, 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).

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504352 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33443 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481553 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504352 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33443 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481553

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5987 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 28, 2009 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.