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diff --git a/django/bin/compile-messages.py b/django/bin/compile-messages.py
index 66fdfd3e8b..07dcce7bf6 100755
--- a/django/bin/compile-messages.py
+++ b/django/bin/compile-messages.py
@@ -19,7 +19,14 @@ def compile_messages():
if f.endswith('.po'):
sys.stderr.write('processing file %s in %s\n' % (f, dirpath))
pf = os.path.splitext(os.path.join(dirpath, f))[0]
- cmd = 'msgfmt -o "%s.mo" "%s.po"' % (pf, pf)
+ # Store the names of the .mo and .po files in an environment
+ # variable, rather than doing a string replacement into the
+ # command, so that we can take advantage of shell quoting, to
+ # quote any malicious characters/escaping.
+ # See http://cyberelk.net/tim/articles/cmdline/ar01s02.html
+ os.environ['djangocompilemo'] = pf + '.mo'
+ os.environ['djangocompilepo'] = pf + '.po'
+ cmd = 'msgfmt -o "$djangocompilemo" "$djangocompilepo"'
os.system(cmd)
if __name__ == "__main__":