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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-53899: python-virtualenv -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 24, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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