🛡️ CVE-2024-53899 — virtualenv

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-77 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

virtualenv allows command injection through activation scripts for a virtual environment

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-53899 is classified as CWE-77: Command Injection. User input is placed into a command that the system interprets, allowing extra commands to be appended to the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2024-53899 is recorded against 1 package.

  • virtualenv

Timeline and source

Published on 27 November 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

CVE-2024-53899 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-77
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source OSV
Published 2024-11-27
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
virtualenv — —

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