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CVE-2021-42969

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-05-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Certain Anaconda3 2021.05 are affected by OS command injection. When a user installs Anaconda, an attacker can create a new file and write something in usercustomize.py. When the user opens the terminal or activates Anaconda, the command will be executed.

Affected products

• Anaconda3: 2021.05

References

• https://yuaneuro.cn/anaconda/anaconda_command_execution.docx
• https://yuaneuro.cn/anaconda/anaconda_command_execution.docx

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