CVE-2024-9287 (GCVE-0-2024-9287)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-22 16:34 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:33
VLAI
Title
Virtual environment (venv) activation scripts don't quote paths
Summary
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 aren't activated before being used (ie "./venv/bin/python") are not affected.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Green
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-22 00:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-428 - Unquoted Search Path or Element
Assigner
PSF CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 80/100 over 28 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.9.21 (python)
Affected: 3.10.0 , < 3.10.16 (python)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.11 (python)
Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.8 (python)
Affected: 3.13.0 , < 3.13.1 (python)
Affected: 3.14.0a1 , < 3.14.0a2 (python)
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python cpython Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.13.0 (python)
    cpe:2.3:a:python:cpython:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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