Uncontrolled Search Path Element Affecting future package, versions [0.14.0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-FUTURE-11951438
  • published17 Aug 2025
  • disclosed14 Aug 2025
  • creditYutai Kim, Seungyeon Han, Changmin Hong

Introduced: 14 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-50817  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-427  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for future.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Search Path Element via the unintended import of a test.py file. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by placing a malicious test.py file in the same directory or within the sys.path that is accessible when the module is loaded.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1