Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting virtualenv package, versions [21.14.8,21.14.9)
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- published21 Oct 2026
- disclosed20 Oct 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 20 Oct 2026
NewCVE-2026-113718 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade virtualenv to version 21.14.9 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection via the quote method in src/virtualenv/activation/xonsh/__init__.py, which uses repr() to encode string literals written into the xonsh activation script. Because repr() does not guarantee ASCII-safe output, non-ASCII characters in paths (such as a virtualenv directory containing Unicode characters) can be written into the activation script in a form that xonsh, depending on its source encoding, may misparse, allowing an attacker who controls the virtualenv path to inject and execute arbitrary code when a user activates the environment.