CVE-2024-53899: PYSEC-2024-187 - virtualenv before 20.26.6 allows command injection through the activation scripts for a virtual environment. Magic template strings are not

CVE-2024-53899 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2024-11-24

Technologies: virtualenv (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Executive brief

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.

Affected products

PyPI virtualenv

Related threats

PYSEC-2026-2009 - virtualenv Has TOCTOU Vulnerabilities in Directory Creation
PYSEC-2011-23 - virtualenv.py in virtualenv before 1.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a certain file in /tmp/.