CVE-2026-113716

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-113716
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-113716.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-113716
Aliases
Downstream
CGA (7)
Published
2026-10-20T19:18:09Z
Modified
2026-10-22T02:30:55Z
Severity
  • 4.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
virtualenv: Builtin creation follows linked environment directories
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-59"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/113xxx/CVE-2026-113716.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pypa/virtualenv

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
e53e30b9c8fbc3f4f502223819449ddc970fbbe8
Fixed
554d9f9d4f7758f5cf53f993031e29787f1f74c5
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "21.14.9"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "554d9f9d4f7758f5cf53f993031e29787f1f74c5"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "21.14.9",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "e53e30b9c8fbc3f4f502223819449ddc970fbbe8"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

20.*
20.0.0b1
20.0.0b2
20.0.32
20.0.7
20.24.3
20.27.2
20.27.3
20.3.0
20.37.0
20.38.0
20.39.0
20.39.1
21.*
21.0.0
21.1.0
21.10.0
21.11.0
21.11.1
21.12.0
21.12.1
21.13.0
21.14.0
21.14.1
21.14.2
21.14.3
21.14.4
21.14.5
21.14.6
21.14.7
21.14.8
21.2.0
21.2.1
21.2.2
21.2.3
21.2.4
21.3.0
21.3.1
21.3.2
21.3.3
21.4.0
21.4.1
21.4.2
21.4.3
21.5.0
21.5.1
21.5.2
21.6.0
21.6.1
21.7.0
21.7.1
21.7.10
21.7.11
21.7.12
21.7.13
21.7.14
21.7.15
21.7.16
21.7.2
21.7.3
21.7.4
21.7.5
21.7.6
21.7.7
21.7.8
21.7.9
21.8.0
21.8.1
21.9.0
21.9.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-113716.json"