Symlink Attack Affecting virtualenv package, versions [,1.5)
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EPSS
0.04% (6th
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-VIRTUALENV-40089
- published 25 Feb 2016
- disclosed 31 Dec 2011
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 31 Dec 2011
CVE-2011-4617 Open this link in a new tabOverview
virtualenv is a Virtual Python Environment builder
virtualenv.py in virtualenv before 1.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a certain file in /tmp/.
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