GHSA-cpwx-vrp4-4pq7
Jinja2 vulnerable to sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2025-27516
- Aliases
- PYSEC-2026-1471
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
An oversight in how the Jinja sandboxed environment interacts with the `|attr` filter allows an attacker that controls the content of a template to execute arbitrary Python code. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker needs to control the content of a template. Whether that is the case depends on the type of application using Jinja. This vulnerability impacts users of applications which execute untrusted templates. Jinja's sandbox does catch calls to `str.format` and ensures they don't escape the sandbox. However, it's possible to use the `|attr` filter to get a reference to a string's plain format method, bypassing the sandbox. After the fix, the `|attr` filter no longer bypasses the environment's attribute lookup.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · jinja2 | introduced 0, fixed 3.1.6 |
References
- https://github.com/pallets/jinja/security/advisories/GHSA-cpwx-vrp4-4pq7 WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27516 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/pallets/jinja/commit/90457bbf33b8662926ae65cdde4c4c32e756e403 WEB
- https://github.com/pallets/jinja PACKAGE
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00022.html WEB
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00045.html WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |