python3-virtualenv: fix CVE-2026-113732

This patch applies the upstream fix as referenced in [2], using the
commit shown in [1]. Use Fish-specific quoting so backslashes and
quotes in an environment path or prompt remain literal data.

Include follow-up [3], released in [4], to preserve apostrophes and
backslashes after multibyte text in Fish 3 legacy locales. Keep the
upstream GBK and UTF-8 regression tests.

[1] https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/commit/3bddeaf8d02c3ee7f576503efb082f8f494cfcab
[2] https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/security/advisories/GHSA-c947-3pg5-gm8q
[3] https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/commit/685435d7fb53da12da99e195ee2753f5ca083249
[4] https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/releases/tag/21.14.9

Signed-off-by: Hetvi Thakar <hthakar@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@oss.qualcomm.com>
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Hetvi Thakar authored and Anuj Mittal committed 2026-11-09 08:55:34 +05:30
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From 3bddeaf8d02c3ee7f576503efb082f8f494cfcab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernát Gábor <gaborjbernat@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:59:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Merge commit from fork
FishActivator inherited shlex.quote, whose POSIX rules leave a backslash
literal inside single quotes. fish reads \' there as an escaped quote, so a
path or --prompt with a backslash before a quote ended the literal early and
ran the rest as commands, without any error from fish.
Give FishActivator its own quote() that escapes backslashes and quotes.
CVE: CVE-2026-113732
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/commit/3bddeaf8d02c3ee7f576503efb082f8f494cfcab]
Backport Changes:
- Add the cli_run import required by the upstream regression test;
it is absent from the 21.2.1 test module.
Signed-off-by: Hetvi Thakar <hthakar@cisco.com>
---
src/virtualenv/activation/fish/__init__.py | 6 ++++
tests/unit/activation/test_fish.py | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/virtualenv/activation/fish/__init__.py b/src/virtualenv/activation/fish/__init__.py
index 74300db..81d6d92 100644
--- a/src/virtualenv/activation/fish/__init__.py
+++ b/src/virtualenv/activation/fish/__init__.py
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ class FishActivator(ViaTemplateActivator):
def templates(self) -> Iterator[str]:
yield "activate.fish"
+ @staticmethod
+ def quote(string: str) -> str:
+ # fish reads \\ and \' as escapes inside single quotes, unlike POSIX sh, so shlex.quote's output lets a
+ # backslash before a quote end the literal early
+ return "'" + string.replace("\\", "\\\\").replace("'", "\\'") + "'"
+
def replacements(self, creator: Creator, dest_folder: Path) -> dict[str, str]:
data = super().replacements(creator, dest_folder)
data.update({
diff --git a/tests/unit/activation/test_fish.py b/tests/unit/activation/test_fish.py
index f726e7e..fc1b8a6 100644
--- a/tests/unit/activation/test_fish.py
+++ b/tests/unit/activation/test_fish.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
from __future__ import annotations
import os
-import shlex
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
@@ -13,6 +12,7 @@ import pytest
from virtualenv.activation import FishActivator
from virtualenv.info import IS_WIN
+from virtualenv.run import cli_run
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from collections.abc import Callable
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ def test_fish_tkinter_generation(
assert "set -e _OLD_PKG_CONFIG_PATH" in content
if present:
- assert f"set -gx TCL_LIBRARY {shlex.quote(tcl_lib)}\n" in content
- assert f"set -gx TK_LIBRARY {shlex.quote(tk_lib)}\n" in content
+ assert f"set -gx TCL_LIBRARY {FishActivator.quote(tcl_lib)}\n" in content
+ assert f"set -gx TK_LIBRARY {FishActivator.quote(tk_lib)}\n" in content
else:
assert "if test -n ''\n if set -q TCL_LIBRARY;" in content
assert "if test -n ''\n if set -q TK_LIBRARY;" in content
@@ -79,6 +79,40 @@ def test_fish_tkinter_path_does_not_run_commands(
assert not marker.exists()
+@pytest.mark.skipif(IS_WIN, reason="fish is not available on Windows")
+@pytest.mark.skipif(FISH is None, reason="fish is not installed")
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+ ("prompt", "env_name"),
+ [
+ pytest.param(r"x\'$(touch PWNED)'\'", "env", id="prompt-backslash-quote"),
+ pytest.param(None, r"x\'$(touch PWNED)'\'", id="dirname-backslash-quote"),
+ ],
+)
+def test_fish_activate_does_not_run_commands(
+ tmp_path: Path, current_fastest: str, prompt: str | None, env_name: str
+) -> None:
+ dest = tmp_path / env_name
+ args = ["--without-pip", str(dest), "--creator", current_fastest, "--no-periodic-update", "--activators", "fish"]
+ if prompt is not None:
+ args += ["--prompt", prompt]
+ cli_run(args)
+ (work_dir := tmp_path / "workdir").mkdir()
+
+ # the path is passed as an argument so the driver cannot expand a payload dir name while locating the script
+ result = subprocess.run(
+ [FISH, "--no-config", "-c", 'source $argv[1]; printf "%s" "$VIRTUAL_ENV"', str(dest / "bin" / "activate.fish")],
+ capture_output=True,
+ text=True,
+ encoding="utf-8",
+ cwd=str(work_dir),
+ timeout=60,
+ check=False,
+ )
+
+ assert not (work_dir / "PWNED").exists()
+ assert result.stdout == str(dest), result.stderr
+
+
@pytest.mark.skipif(IS_WIN, reason="we have not setup fish in CI yet")
def test_fish(activation_tester_class, activation_tester, monkeypatch, tmp_path) -> None:
monkeypatch.setenv("HOME", str(tmp_path))
--
2.35.6
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
From 685435d7fb53da12da99e195ee2753f5ca083249 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernát Gábor <gaborjbernat@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:08:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 🐛 fix(fish): separate escapes from multibyte text (#3413)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
CVE: CVE-2026-113732
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/commit/685435d7fb53da12da99e195ee2753f5ca083249]
Backport Changes:
- Omit the release-only changelog fragment; the release documentation
directory is absent from the 21.2.1 source distribution.
Signed-off-by: Hetvi Thakar <hthakar@cisco.com>
---
src/virtualenv/activation/fish/__init__.py | 6 +--
tests/unit/activation/test_fish.py | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/virtualenv/activation/fish/__init__.py b/src/virtualenv/activation/fish/__init__.py
index 81d6d92..7f376a9 100644
--- a/src/virtualenv/activation/fish/__init__.py
+++ b/src/virtualenv/activation/fish/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
from __future__ import annotations
+import re
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
from virtualenv.activation.via_template import ViaTemplateActivator
@@ -17,9 +18,8 @@ class FishActivator(ViaTemplateActivator):
@staticmethod
def quote(string: str) -> str:
- # fish reads \\ and \' as escapes inside single quotes, unlike POSIX sh, so shlex.quote's output lets a
- # backslash before a quote end the literal early
- return "'" + string.replace("\\", "\\\\").replace("'", "\\'") + "'"
+ # Keep escapes beside ASCII quotes so legacy decoders cannot absorb them into a preceding multibyte character.
+ return "'" + re.sub(r"[\\']", lambda match: f"'\\{match.group()}'", string) + "'"
def replacements(self, creator: Creator, dest_folder: Path) -> dict[str, str]:
data = super().replacements(creator, dest_folder)
diff --git a/tests/unit/activation/test_fish.py b/tests/unit/activation/test_fish.py
index fc1b8a6..d131043 100644
--- a/tests/unit/activation/test_fish.py
+++ b/tests/unit/activation/test_fish.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import subprocess
import sys
from argparse import Namespace
from types import SimpleNamespace
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Final
import pytest
@@ -21,6 +21,60 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
FISH = shutil.which("fish")
+@pytest.mark.skipif(IS_WIN or FISH is None, reason="fish is required")
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+ "value",
+ [
+ pytest.param("", id="empty"),
+ pytest.param("plain text", id="space"),
+ pytest.param("café's", id="unicode-apostrophe"),
+ pytest.param("café\\path", id="unicode-backslash"),
+ ],
+)
+def test_fish_quote_preserves_literal(value: str) -> None:
+ result: Final = subprocess.run(
+ [FISH, "--no-config"],
+ input=f"printf '%s' {FishActivator.quote(value)}\n",
+ capture_output=True,
+ text=True,
+ encoding="utf-8",
+ timeout=30,
+ check=True,
+ )
+ assert result.stdout == value
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(IS_WIN or FISH is None, reason="fish is required")
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("value", [pytest.param("中's", id="apostrophe"), pytest.param("中\\path", id="backslash")])
+def test_fish_quote_preserves_legacy_locale_bytes(value: str) -> None:
+ version: Final = subprocess.check_output([FISH, "--version"], text=True, encoding="utf-8")
+ if not version.startswith("fish, version 3."):
+ pytest.skip("fish 4 always decodes UTF-8")
+ locales: Final = subprocess.check_output(["locale", "-a"], text=True, encoding="utf-8").splitlines()
+ if "zh_CN.gbk" not in locales:
+ pytest.skip("GBK locale is unavailable")
+ result: Final = subprocess.run(
+ [FISH, "--no-config"],
+ input=f"printf '%s' {FishActivator.quote(value)}\n".encode(),
+ env={**os.environ, "LC_ALL": "zh_CN.gbk"},
+ capture_output=True,
+ timeout=30,
+ check=True,
+ )
+ assert result.stdout == value.encode()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+ ("value", "expected"),
+ [
+ pytest.param("café's", "'café'\\''s'", id="apostrophe"),
+ pytest.param("café\\path", "'café'\\\\'path'", id="backslash"),
+ ],
+)
+def test_fish_quote_separates_escapes(value: str, expected: str) -> None:
+ assert FishActivator.quote(value) == expected
+
+
@pytest.fixture
def rendered_activate_fish(tmp_path: Path) -> Callable[[str | None, str | None], Path]:
def render(tcl_lib: str | None, tk_lib: str | None) -> Path:
--
2.35.6
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ SRC_URI += " \
file://CVE-2026-102930_p2.patch \
file://CVE-2026-102930_p3.patch \
file://CVE-2026-102925.patch \
file://CVE-2026-113732_p1.patch \
file://CVE-2026-113732_p2.patch \
"
BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"