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CVE-2026-113718

virtualenv: Xonsh activation literals depend on the script decoding codec PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

virtualenv is a tool for creating isolated virtual python environments. Prior to 21.14.9, POSIX xonsh activation quote() uses repr() to write printable non-ASCII prompt or destination data into UTF-8 activate.xsh, while xonsh can read that script using $XONSH_ENCODING. Under a legacy multibyte codec such as GBK or Big5, a UTF-8 trail byte can consume the backslash before an adjacent quote, allowing the literal to close and attacker-influenced statements to execute when the user sources the generated script. This issue is fixed in version 21.14.9.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
pypa / virtualenvaffected < 21.14.9

CWE

CWE-94

References