CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-53899

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-11-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2024-11-24
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0): 8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses: CWE-77, CWE-78

Description

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 configurations

• virtualenv virtualenv (< 20.26.6)

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness
CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

References

https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/2768 Exploit
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/pull/2771 Patch
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/releases/tag/20.26.6 Release Notes