GHSA-558C-9HV2-4PRJ virtualenv: Generated files can follow existing destination links

Summary Generated activation files and pyvenv.cfg can follow existing links and write outside the requested environment. The template writer tests exists before unlinking, which misses dangling symlinks; the configuration writer opens the existing path directly. Anthropic's OSS Scanner reported...

virtualenv: Generated files can follow existing destination links

Summary Generated activation files and pyvenv.cfg can follow existing links and write outside the requested environment. The template writer tests exists before unlinking, which misses dangling symlinks; the configuration writer opens the existing path directly. Anthropic's OSS Scanner reported...

PT-2026-47548

Impact In versions of uv prior to 0.11.15, when installing a distribution containing an entry point specification under console scripts or gui scripts, uv would place the generated entry point according to the given name even if doing so resulted in a path outside of the environment's scripts...