Uncontrolled Search Path Element The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package future (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-FUTURE-11951438
- published17 Aug 2025
- disclosed14 Aug 2025
- creditYutai Kim, Seungyeon Han, Changmin Hong
Introduced: 14 Aug 2025
CVE-2025-50817 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for future.
Amendment
This was deemed not a vulnerability.
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.
Note: Multiple third parties have disputed this issue and stated that it is not a security flaw in python-future and is a documented feature of Python’s import system in the handling of sys.path.