Uncontrolled Search Path Element Affecting ramalama package, versions [,0.8.3)
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- published15 Sept 2025
- disclosed7 Jun 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 7 Jun 2025
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-427 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade ramalama to version 0.8.3 or higher.
Overview
ramalama is a RamaLama is a command line tool for working with AI LLM models.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Search Path Element via the add_site_packages_to_syspath('/usr/local'), which unconditionally appended /usr/local/lib/python*/site-packages to sys.path. A local attacker can exploit the deprecated bin/ramalama launcher by placing a malicious Python module in the user-writable /usr/local directory.