Security Advisory

CVE-2024-9287

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-10-22 16:34:39
Last updated 2025-11-03 22:33:21
Assigner PSF
State PUBLISHED

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 arent activated before being used (ie "./venv/bin/python") are not affected.