CVE-2024-9287

Description

A vulnerability has been found in the CPython `venv` module and CLI where path names provided when creating a virtual environment were not quoted properly, allowing the creator to inject commands into virtual environment "activation" scripts (ie "source venv/bin/activate"). This means that attacker-controlled virtual environments are able to run commands when the virtual environment is activated. Virtual environments which are not created by an attacker or which aren't activated before being used (ie "./venv/bin/python") are not affected.

References

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/RSPJ2B5JL22FG3TKUJ7D7DQ4N5JRRBZL/

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/124712

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/124651

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e52095a0c1005a87eed2276af7a1f2f66e2b6483

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ae961ae94bf19c8f8c7fbea3d1c25cc55ce8ae97

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9286ab3a107ea41bd3f3c3682ce2512692bdded8

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8450b2482586857d689b6658f08de9c8179af7db

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/633555735a023d3e4d92ba31da35b1205f9ecbd7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4