CRITICAL9.8

PYSEC-2024-187

Quick fix

PYSEC-2024-187 — virtualenv: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'virtualenv>=20.26.6'

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: 0Fixed in: 20.26.6

Fixpip 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]