FKIE_CVE-2026-22702

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-10 07:16 - Updated: 2026-01-13 14:03
Severity ?
4.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
virtualenv is a tool for creating isolated virtual python environments. Prior to version 20.36.1, TOCTOU (Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use) vulnerabilities in virtualenv allow local attackers to perform symlink-based attacks on directory creation operations. An attacker with local access can exploit a race condition between directory existence checks and creation to redirect virtualenv's app_data and lock file operations to attacker-controlled locations. This issue has been patched in version 20.36.1.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/commit/dec4cec5d16edaf83a00a658f32d1e032661cebc
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/pull/3013
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/security/advisories/GHSA-597g-3phw-6986
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