Uncontrolled Search Path Element Affecting tkeasygui package, versions [,1.0.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-TKEASYGUI-12510046
  • published5 Sept 2025
  • disclosed5 Sept 2025
  • creditSatoki Tsuji

Introduced: 5 Sep 2025

NewCVE-2025-55671  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-427  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade TkEasyGUI to version 1.0.22 or higher.

Overview

TkEasyGUI is a TkEasyGUI is simple GUI Library for Python3 with Tkinter

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Search Path Element via the search path element. An attacker can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the running program by placing a malicious file in a directory that is searched before the intended executable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1