CVE-2026-113726

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-113726
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-113726.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-113726
Aliases
Published
2026-10-20T22:05:24Z
Modified
2026-10-21T10:45:52Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
virtualenv activate runs commands from the environment name in zsh with PROMPT_SUBST
Details

virtualenv is a tool for creating isolated virtual python environments. Prior to 21.13.0, the bash activate script that zsh also sources leaves the environment name unescaped; from 21.13.0 until 21.14.4, it escapes backslashes, dollar signs, and backticks only when BASH_VERSION is set, so zsh receives the raw value. The script assigns that value to PS1. In zsh with PROMPT_SUBST, an attacker-influenced environment directory, --prompt, or VIRTUALENV_PROMPT value containing command, parameter, or arithmetic expansion syntax can therefore execute commands in the user's shell each time the prompt is drawn. A percent sign is separately interpreted as a zsh prompt escape but does not by itself execute commands. Plain zsh with PROMPT_SUBST disabled and bash are not affected by this mechanism. This issue is fixed in version 21.14.4.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-116",
        "CWE-78"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/113xxx/CVE-2026-113726.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
6657c5876b2185fd3feb77c1f03ec58246321c36
Fixed
5b915367da82bd024b2a0d28d2f98007034b4aa2
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "21.14.4"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "5b915367da82bd024b2a0d28d2f98007034b4aa2"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "21.14.4",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "6657c5876b2185fd3feb77c1f03ec58246321c36"
                }
            ],
            "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
21.2.0
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-2026-113726.json"