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CVE-2024-53899

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53899

Severity

7.8

High

CVSS V3

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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.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53899
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqc4-2hc7-8c8v
  • https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/releases/tag/20.26.6
  • https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/pull/2771
  • https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/2768

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