GHSA-rqc4-2hc7-8c8v

virtualenv allows command injection through activation scripts for a virtual environment

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2024-53899

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	virtualenv	< 20.26.6	20.26.6

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

virtualenv before 20.26.6 allows command injection through the activation scripts for a virtual environment. Magic template strings are not quoted correctly when replacing. NOTE: this is not the same as CVE-2024-9287.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53899 advisory
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/2768 web
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/pull/2771 web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/virtualenv/PYSEC-2024-187.yaml web
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv package
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/releases/tag/20.26.6 web