Jesús Cea Avión <j...@jcea.es> added the comment:

This issue is equivalent to MS Windows DLL hijacking (the MS situation is 
worse, because the DDL can be in network shares or, even , in remote webdav 
servers):

http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/08/exploiting-dll-hijacking-flaws.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20014625-245.html

When I learned about this attack, my first thought was "what if 
sys.path.index('')>=0?". Arg!.

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