PT-2011-5011 · Python · Virtualenv

Published 2011-12-31 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2011-4617

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions virtualenv versions prior to 1.5

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a certain file in /tmp/.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.5, update to version 1.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4617

GHSA-3JHC-WJQF-5F2C

PYSEC-2011-23

Affected Products

Virtualenv

References · 17

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071643.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4617 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4617 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4617 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2011-23 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47240 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071638.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-3jhc-wjqf-5f2c · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4617 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/commit/68075ad9ededf7df2c46d385f836c13b729de2ca · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/virtualenv/PYSEC-2011-23.yaml · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/4 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200228151935/https://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/commits/8be37c509fe5 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/2 · Note