Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python3.11-virtualenv  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PYTHON311VIRTUALENV-21342939
  • published21 Oct 2026
  • disclosed20 Oct 2026

Introduced: 20 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-113732  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3.11-virtualenv package and not the python3.11-virtualenv package as distributed by RHEL.

virtualenv is a tool for creating isolated virtual python environments. Prior to 21.14.2, FishActivator inherits ViaTemplateActivator.quote(), which uses POSIX shlex.quote() even though fish interprets backslashes and single quotes differently. An attacker-influenced environment path, --prompt, or VIRTUALENV_PROMPT value containing a backslash before a quote can therefore terminate the generated fish literal and execute command substitution when the user sources activate.fish. This issue is fixed in version 21.14.2.