vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-53899: ELSA-2024-10953: python36:3.6 security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 24, 2024
Added
Dec 13, 2024
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

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.
A flaw was found in the virtualenv Python package. Due to the handling of quotes in magic template strings, the virtual environment activation script is vulnerable to OS command injection.

Solutions

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