CVE-2024-53899

high

Published 2024-11-24 · Modified 2024-12-11

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`20.26.6+ds-1`
sid	Fixed	`20.26.6+ds-1`
forky	Fixed	`20.26.6+ds-1`
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	virtualenv	`<20.26.6`	`20.26.6`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.