diff --git a/src/providers/golang_gomodules.js b/src/providers/golang_gomodules.js
index 45bed5a..4e76e42 100644
--- a/src/providers/golang_gomodules.js
+++ b/src/providers/golang_gomodules.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { execSync } from "node:child_process"
 import fs from 'node:fs'
 import os from "node:os";
 import {EOL} from "os";
-import {getCustom, getCustomPath} from "../tools.js";
+import {getCustom, getCustomPath, handleSpacesInPath} from "../tools.js";
 import path from 'node:path'
 import Sbom from '../sbom.js'
 import {PackageURL} from 'packageurl-js'
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ function provideComponent(data, opts = {}) {
 
 
 function getGoGraphCommand(goBin) {
-	return `${goBin} mod graph `;
+	return `${handleSpacesInPath(goBin)} mod graph `;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ function getSBOM(manifest, opts = {}, includeTransitive) {
 	// get custom goBin path
 	let goBin = getCustomPath('go', opts)
 	// verify goBin is accessible
-	execSync(`${goBin} version`, err => {
+	execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(goBin)} version`, err => {
 		if (err) {
 			throw new Error('go binary is not accessible')
 		}
@@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ function toPurl(dependency, delimiter, qualifiers) {
 function getFinalPackagesVersionsForModule(rows,manifestPath,goBin) {
 	let manifestDir = path.dirname(manifestPath)
 	let options = {cwd: manifestDir}
-	execSync(`${goBin} mod download`, options)
-	let finalVersionsForAllModules = execSync(`${goBin} list -m all`, options).toString()
+	execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(goBin)} mod download`, options)
+	let finalVersionsForAllModules = execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(goBin)} list -m all`, options).toString()
 	let finalVersionModules = new Map()
 	finalVersionsForAllModules.split(EOL).filter(string => string.trim()!== "")
 		.filter(string => string.trim().split(" ").length === 2)
diff --git a/src/providers/java_gradle.js b/src/providers/java_gradle.js
index bc64fda..83c2bc6 100644
--- a/src/providers/java_gradle.js
+++ b/src/providers/java_gradle.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import fs from 'node:fs'
-import {getCustomPath} from "../tools.js";
+import {getCustomPath, handleSpacesInPath} from "../tools.js";
 import path from 'node:path'
 import Sbom from '../sbom.js'
 import {EOL} from 'os'
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ export default class Java_gradle extends Base_java {
 		let gradle = getCustomPath("gradle", opts);
 		let properties
 		try {
-			properties = this._invokeCommandGetOutput(`${gradle} properties`, path.dirname(manifestPath))
+			properties = this._invokeCommandGetOutput(`${handleSpacesInPath(gradle)} properties`, path.dirname(manifestPath))
 		} catch (e) {
 			throw new Error(`Couldn't get properties of build.gradle file , Error message returned from gradle binary => ${EOL} ${e.getMessage}`)
 		}
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ export default class Java_gradle extends Base_java {
 		let commandResult
 		gradle = getCustomPath("gradle")
 		try {
-			commandResult = this._invokeCommandGetOutput(`${gradle} dependencies`,path.dirname(manifest))
+			commandResult = this._invokeCommandGetOutput(`${handleSpacesInPath(gradle)} dependencies`,path.dirname(manifest))
 		} catch (e) {
 			throw new Error(`Couldn't run gradle dependencies command, error message returned from gradle binary => ${EOL} ${e.getMessage}`)
 		}
diff --git a/src/providers/java_maven.js b/src/providers/java_maven.js
index a496334..950eee1 100644
--- a/src/providers/java_maven.js
+++ b/src/providers/java_maven.js
@@ -72,14 +72,14 @@ export default class Java_maven extends Base_java {
 		// get custom maven path
 		let mvn = getCustomPath('mvn', opts)
 		// verify maven is accessible
-		this._invokeCommand(`${mvn} --version`,'mvn is not accessible')
+		this._invokeCommand(`${handleSpacesInPath(mvn)} --version`,'mvn is not accessible')
 		// clean maven target
-		this._invokeCommand(`${mvn} -q clean -f ${handleSpacesInPath(manifest)}`,'failed cleaning maven target')
+		this._invokeCommand(`${handleSpacesInPath(mvn)} -q clean -f ${handleSpacesInPath(manifest)}`,'failed cleaning maven target')
 		// create dependency graph in a temp file
 		let tmpDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'exhort_'))
 		let tmpDepTree = path.join(tmpDir, 'mvn_deptree.txt')
 		// build initial command (dot outputType is not available for verbose mode)
-		let depTreeCmd = `${mvn} -q org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:3.6.0:tree -Dverbose -DoutputType=text -DoutputFile=${handleSpacesInPath(tmpDepTree)} -f ${handleSpacesInPath(manifest)}`
+		let depTreeCmd = `${handleSpacesInPath(mvn)} -q org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:3.6.0:tree -Dverbose -DoutputType=text -DoutputFile=${handleSpacesInPath(tmpDepTree)} -f ${handleSpacesInPath(manifest)}`
 		// exclude ignored dependencies, exclude format is groupId:artifactId:scope:version.
 		// version and scope are marked as '*' if not specified (we do not use scope yet)
 		let ignoredDeps = new Array()
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ export default class Java_maven extends Base_java {
 		// get custom maven path
 		let mvn = getCustomPath('mvn', opts)
 		// verify maven is accessible
-		this._invokeCommand(`${mvn} --version`,'mvn is not accessible')
+		this._invokeCommand(`${handleSpacesInPath(mvn)} --version`,'mvn is not accessible')
 		// create temp files for pom and effective pom
 		let tmpDir
 		let tmpEffectivePom
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ export default class Java_maven extends Base_java {
 		}
 
 		// create effective pom and save to temp file
-		this._invokeCommand(`${mvn} -q help:effective-pom -Doutput=${handleSpacesInPath(tmpEffectivePom)} -f ${handleSpacesInPath(targetPom)}`,'failed creating maven effective pom')
+		this._invokeCommand(`${handleSpacesInPath(mvn)} -q help:effective-pom -Doutput=${handleSpacesInPath(tmpEffectivePom)} -f ${handleSpacesInPath(targetPom)}`,'failed creating maven effective pom')
 		// iterate over all dependencies in original pom and collect all ignored ones
 		let ignored = this.#getDependencies(targetPom).filter(d => d.ignore)
 		// iterate over all dependencies and create a package for every non-ignored one
diff --git a/src/providers/javascript_npm.js b/src/providers/javascript_npm.js
index b506f5e..a46f154 100644
--- a/src/providers/javascript_npm.js
+++ b/src/providers/javascript_npm.js
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ export var npmInteractions = {
 		return npmOutput;
 	},
 	version: function checkNpmVersion(npm) {
-		execSync(`${npm} --version`, err => {
+		execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(npm)} --version`, err => {
 			if (err) {
 				throw new Error('npm is not accessible')
 			}
 		})
 	},
 	createPackageLock: function createPackageLock(npm, manifestDir) {
-		execSync(`${npm} i --package-lock-only --prefix ${handleSpacesInPath(manifestDir)}`, err => {
+		execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(npm)} i --package-lock-only --prefix ${handleSpacesInPath(manifestDir)}`, err => {
 			if (err) {
 				throw new Error('failed to create npmOutput list')
 			}
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ function provideComponent(data, opts = {}, path = '') {
  * @return {string} returns a string containing the result output.
  */
 function getNpmListing(npm, allFilter, manifestDir) {
-	return `${npm} ls${allFilter} --omit=dev --package-lock-only --json --prefix ${manifestDir}`;
+	return `${handleSpacesInPath(npm)} ls${allFilter} --omit=dev --package-lock-only --json --prefix ${manifestDir}`;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/providers/python_controller.js b/src/providers/python_controller.js
index ac5a1a1..2981a25 100644
--- a/src/providers/python_controller.js
+++ b/src/providers/python_controller.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {environmentVariableIsPopulated,getCustom, handleSpacesInPath} from "../t
 
 
 function getPipFreezeOutput() {
-	return environmentVariableIsPopulated("EXHORT_PIP_FREEZE")  ? new Buffer(process.env["EXHORT_PIP_FREEZE"],'base64').toString('ascii') : execSync(`${this.pathToPipBin} freeze --all`, err => {
+	return environmentVariableIsPopulated("EXHORT_PIP_FREEZE")  ? new Buffer(process.env["EXHORT_PIP_FREEZE"],'base64').toString('ascii') : execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToPipBin)} freeze --all`, err => {
 		if (err) {
 			throw new Error('fail invoking pip freeze to fetch all installed dependencies in environment --> ' + err.message)
 		}
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ function getPipFreezeOutput() {
 
 function getPipShowOutput(depNames) {
 
-	return environmentVariableIsPopulated("EXHORT_PIP_SHOW")  ? new Buffer(process.env["EXHORT_PIP_SHOW"],'base64').toString('ascii')  : execSync(`${this.pathToPipBin} show ${depNames}`, err => {
+	return environmentVariableIsPopulated("EXHORT_PIP_SHOW")  ? new Buffer(process.env["EXHORT_PIP_SHOW"],'base64').toString('ascii')  : execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToPipBin)} show ${depNames}`, err => {
 		if (err) {
 			throw new Error('fail invoking pip show to fetch all installed dependencies metadata --> ' + err.message)
 		}
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ export default class Python_controller {
 	{
 		if(!this.realEnvironment) {
 			this.pythonEnvDir = path.join(path.sep,"tmp","exhort_env_js")
-			execSync(`${this.pathToPythonBin} -m venv ${this.pythonEnvDir} `, err => {
+			execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToPythonBin)} -m venv ${this.pythonEnvDir} `, err => {
 				if (err) {
 					throw new Error('failed creating virtual python environment - ' + err.message)
 				}
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ export default class Python_controller {
 				this.pathToPythonBin = path.join(this.pythonEnvDir,"bin","python")
 			}
 			// upgrade pip version to latest
-			execSync(`${this.pathToPythonBin} -m pip install --upgrade pip `, err => {
+			execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToPythonBin)} -m pip install --upgrade pip `, err => {
 				if (err) {
 					throw new Error('failed upgrading pip version on virtual python environment - ' + err.message)
 				}
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ export default class Python_controller {
 			let installBestEfforts = getCustom("EXHORT_PYTHON_INSTALL_BEST_EFFORTS","false",this.options);
 			if(installBestEfforts === "false")
 			{
-				execSync(`${this.pathToPipBin} install -r ${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToRequirements)}`, err =>{
+				execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToPipBin)} install -r ${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToRequirements)}`, err =>{
 					if (err) {
 						throw new Error('fail installing requirements.txt manifest in created virtual python environment --> ' + err.message)
 					}
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ export default class Python_controller {
 		let requirementsRows = requirementsContent.toString().split(EOL);
 		requirementsRows.filter((line) => !line.trim().startsWith("#")).filter((line) => line.trim() !== "").forEach( (dependency) => {
 			let dependencyName = getDependencyName(dependency);
-			execSync(`${this.pathToPipBin} install ${dependencyName}`, err =>{
+			execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToPipBin)} install ${dependencyName}`, err =>{
 				if (err) {
 					throw new Error(`Best efforts process - failed installing ${dependencyName}  in created virtual python environment --> error message: ` + err.message)
 				}
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ export default class Python_controller {
 	{
 		if(!this.realEnvironment)
 		{
-			execSync(`${this.pathToPipBin} uninstall -y -r ${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToRequirements)}`, err =>{
+			execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToPipBin)} uninstall -y -r ${handleSpacesInPath(this.pathToRequirements)}`, err =>{
 				if (err) {
 					throw new Error('fail uninstalling requirements.txt in created virtual python environment --> ' + err.message)
 				}
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ function bringAllDependencies(dependencies, dependencyName, cachedEnvironmentDep
 function getDependencyTreeJsonFromPipDepTree(pipPath,pythonPath) {
 	let dependencyTree
 	try {
-		execSync(`${pipPath} install pipdeptree`)
+		execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(pipPath)} install pipdeptree`)
 	} catch (e) {
 		throw new Error(`Couldn't install pipdeptree utility, reason: ${e.getMessage}`)
 	}
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ function getDependencyTreeJsonFromPipDepTree(pipPath,pythonPath) {
 			dependencyTree = execSync(`pipdeptree  --json`).toString()
 		}
 		else {
-			dependencyTree = execSync(`pipdeptree  --json --python  ${pythonPath} `).toString()
+			dependencyTree = execSync(`pipdeptree  --json --python  ${handleSpacesInPath(pythonPath)} `).toString()
 		}
 	} catch (e) {
 		throw new Error(`couldn't produce dependency tree using pipdeptree tool, stop analysis, message -> ${e.getMessage}`)
diff --git a/src/providers/python_pip.js b/src/providers/python_pip.js
index a5f8050..3e92889 100644
--- a/src/providers/python_pip.js
+++ b/src/providers/python_pip.js
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 
 import {execSync} from "node:child_process";
 import fs from 'node:fs'
-import {environmentVariableIsPopulated, getCustom,getCustomPath } from "../tools.js";
+import {
+	environmentVariableIsPopulated,
+	getCustom,
+	getCustomPath,
+	handleSpacesInPath
+} from "../tools.js";
 import os from 'node:os'
 import path from 'node:path'
 import Sbom from '../sbom.js'
@@ -151,14 +156,14 @@ function getPythonPipBinaries(binaries,opts) {
 	let python = getCustomPath("python3",opts)
 	let pip = getCustomPath("pip3",opts)
 	try {
-		execSync(`${python} --version`)
-		execSync(`${pip} --version`)
+		execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(python)} --version`)
+		execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(pip)} --version`)
 	} catch (e) {
 		python = getCustomPath("python",opts)
 		pip = getCustomPath("pip",opts)
 		try {
-			execSync(`${python} --version`)
-			execSync(`${pip} --version`)
+			execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(python)} --version`)
+			execSync(`${handleSpacesInPath(pip)} --version`)
 		} catch (e) {
 			throw new Error(`Couldn't get python binaries from supplied environment variables ${e.getMessage}`)
 		}