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virtualenv: Builtin creation follows linked environment directories

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

virtualenv is a tool for creating isolated virtual python environments. Prior to 21.14.9, the builtin creator calls ensure_dir() for executable, library, and package directories, and ensure_dir() accepts an existing symlink to a directory because exists() follows it. Interpreter creation, seed installation, and activation generation then write through the linked parent outside the requested destination when another local account prepared the tree and the invoking user can access the target. The --clear option removes the planted tree first, while ordinary creation reaches it; arbitrary attacker-selected output bytes are not established. This issue is fixed in version 21.14.9.

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CVE-2026-113716

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-113716

virtualenv

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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[
  {
    "vendor": "pypa",
    "product": "virtualenv",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 21.14.9"
      }
    ]
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-113716

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medium

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