---
id: CVE-2005-1632
aliases:
  - GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx
  - PYSEC-2026-622
title: Cheetah Path Search Order Hijacking
summary: Cheetah Path Search Order Hijacking
severity: high
vendor: cheetah
product: cheetah
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - 'cheetah >= 0.9.15, <= 0.9.16'
published: '2022-05-01'
updated: '2026-07-06'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vxf2-7rc3-pxmx'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1632'
  - url: 'https://github.com/cheetahtemplate/cheetah'
  - url: >-
      https://web.archive.org/web/20050430021153/http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7070332&forum_id=1542
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
epss: 0.00437
epssPercentile: 0.37343
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:53.508Z'
---

## Overview

Cheetah 0.9.15 and 0.9.16 searches the `/tmp` directory for modules before using the paths in the `PYTHONPATH` variable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious module in `/tmp/`.

## Affected packages

- `cheetah >= 0.9.15, <= 0.9.16`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.