GHSA-cpwx-vrp4-4pq7
Jinja2 vulnerable to sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
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.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/pallets/jinja/security/advisories/GHSA-cpwx-vrp4-4pq7
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27516
- https://github.com/pallets/jinja/commit/90457bbf33b8662926ae65cdde4c4c32e756e403
- https://github.com/pallets/jinja
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00022.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00045.html