CVE-2025-59042 – PyInstaller has local privilege escalation vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2025-59042

Published : Sept. 9, 2025, 10:28 p.m. | 28 minutes ago

Description : PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package. Due to a special entry being appended to `sys.path` during the bootstrap process of a PyInstaller-frozen application, and due to the bootstrap script attempting to load an optional module for bytecode decryption while this entry is still present in `sys.path`, an application built with PyInstaller
Severity: 0.0 | NA

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