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

PackageVersions
PyPI · jinja2introduced 0, fixed 3.1.6

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database