CVE-2026-113716: medium-severity vulnerability in pypa virtualenv
virtualenv: Builtin creation follows linked environment directories
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.5epss 0.1%
virtualenv is a tool for creating isolated virtual python environments. Prior to 21.14.9, the builtin creator calls ensure_dir() for executable, library, and package directories, and ensure_dir() accepts an existing symlink to a directory because exists() follows it. Interpreter creation, seed installation, and activation generation then write through the linked parent outside the requested destination when another local account prepared the tree and the invoking user can access the target. The --clear option removes the planted tree first, while ordinary creation reaches it; arbitrary attacker-selected output bytes are not established. This issue is fixed in version 21.14.9.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products
pypa · virtualenvRelated CVEs — pypa virtualenv
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-113726HIGHvirtualenv activate runs commands from the environment name in zsh with PROMPT_SUBSTEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-113717LOWvirtualenv: Pip seeding with download omits wheel digest verificationEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-113722HIGHvirtualenv: Generated POSIX console launchers interpret destination paths as shell syntaxEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-115586HIGHvirtualenv: Bash activator leaves the --prompt value unescaped in PS1 when promptvars is off, so prompt expansion later executes it (regression in 21.14.9)EPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-113776HIGHvirtualenv activation scripts run code from a path that contains a placeholder nameEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-113725HIGHvirtualenv bash activate runs commands from an environment name with a backslash before $EPSS 0.3%