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Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences

CVE-2024-56201

Severity Medium
Score 5.4/10

Summary

Jinja is an extensible templating engine. In affected versions, a bug in the Jinja compiler allows an attacker that controls both the content and filename of a template to execute arbitrary Python code, regardless of if Jinja's sandbox is used. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker needs to control both the filename and the contents of a template. Whether that is the case depends on the type of application using Jinja. This vulnerability impacts users of applications that execute untrusted templates where the template author can also choose the template filename. This issue affects Jinja2 versions prior to 3.1.5.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-150 - Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences

The software receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as escape, meta, or control character sequences when they are sent to a downstream component.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published