Virtual environment (venv) activation scripts don't quote paths
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 52% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Green
Affected products
Python Software Foundation · CPythonReferences
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/633555735a023d3e4d92ba31da35b1205f9ecbd7https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8450b2482586857d689b6658f08de9c8179af7dbhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9286ab3a107ea41bd3f3c3682ce2512692bdded8https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ae961ae94bf19c8f8c7fbea3d1c25cc55ce8ae97https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d48cc82ed25e26b02eb97c6263d95dcaa1e9111bhttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e52095a0c1005a87eed2276af7a1f2f66e2b6483https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/124651https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/124712https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00024.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.htmlhttps://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/RSPJ2B5JL22FG3TKUJ7D7DQ4N5JRRBZL/https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250425-0006/