python-dbusmock before version 0.15.1 AddTemplate() D-Bus method call or DBusTestCase.spawn_server_template() method could be tricked into executing malicious code if an attacker supplies a .pyc file.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - python-dbusmock before version 0.15.1 AddTemplate() D-Bus method call or
    DBusTestCase.spawn_server_template() method could be tricked into executing malicious code if an attacker
    supplies a .pyc file. (CVE-2015-1326)

Security fix for CVE-2015-1326

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2618-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that python-dbusmock incorrectly handled template loading from shared directories. A     local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
423094	SCA: security update for python-dbusmock (GHSA-74xw-82v7-hmrm)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
423094	SCA: security update for python-dbusmock (GHSA-74xw-82v7-hmrm)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
102453	Fedora 25 : python-dbusmock (2017-4ede204115)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
83780	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : python-dbusmock vulnerability (USN-2618-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2015-1326

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Tenable Plugins

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