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CVE-2011-4617

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

virtualenv.py in virtualenv before 1.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a certain file in /tmp/.

Affected products

• Python Virtualenv: through 1.4.9; 0.8, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.9 (+20)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071638.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071643.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/2
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/4
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/5
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47240
• https://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/changeset/8be37c509fe5
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071638.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071643.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/2
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/4
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/5

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