CVE-2024-56326
Prior to 3.1.5, An oversight in how the Jinja sandboxed environment detects calls to str.format allows an attacker that controls the content of a template to execute arbitrary Python code.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.52%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Jinja is an extensible templating engine. Prior to 3.1.5, An oversight in how the Jinja sandboxed environment detects calls to str.format 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 store a reference to a malicious string's format method, then pass that to a filter that calls it. No such filters are built-in to Jinja, but could be present through custom filters in an application. After the fix, such indirect calls are also handled by the sandbox. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.5.
- CVSS 4.0
- 5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.52% probability · 43th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-693, CWE-1336
- Affected
- palletsprojects/jinja
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/pallets/jinja/commit/48b0687e05a5466a91cd5812d604fa37ad0943b4Patch
- https://github.com/pallets/jinja/releases/tag/3.1.5Release Notes
- https://github.com/pallets/jinja/security/advisories/GHSA-q2x7-8rv6-6q7hVendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00022.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.