CRITICAL 9.8

PYSEC-2024-187

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / virtualenv

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 20.26.6

Fix pip install --upgrade 'virtualenv>=20.26.6'

References

https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/2768 [EVIDENCE]
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/pull/2771 [FIX]
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/releases/tag/20.26.6 [WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqc4-2hc7-8c8v [ADVISORY]