CVE-2024-53899

Publication date 24 November 2024

Last updated 18 February 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Why is this CVE medium priority?

Local command injection

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
python-virtualenv 24.10 oracular
Vulnerable
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable
22.04 LTS jammy
20.04 LTS focal
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H