CVE-2024-9287 Information

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 ctivation\ 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.

Reference

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/124651 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/124712 https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/RSPJ2B5JL22FG3TKUJ7D7DQ4N5JRRBZL/ https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e52095a0c1005a87eed2276af7a1f2f66e2b6483