CVE-2024-9287
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-22 16:34
Modified
2024-12-06 16:08
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Green
Summary
Virtual environment (venv) activation scripts don't quote paths
References
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/633555735a023d3e4d92ba31da35b1205f9ecbd7
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8450b2482586857d689b6658f08de9c8179af7db
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9286ab3a107ea41bd3f3c3682ce2512692bdded8
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ae961ae94bf19c8f8c7fbea3d1c25cc55ce8ae97
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e52095a0c1005a87eed2276af7a1f2f66e2b6483
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/issues/124651
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/pull/124712
cna@python.orghttps://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/RSPJ2B5JL22FG3TKUJ7D7DQ4N5JRRBZL/
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