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FKIE_CVE-2024-53899

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-11-24 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:09
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/2768Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/pull/2771Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/releases/tag/20.26.6Release Notes
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
virtualenv virtualenv *
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