CVE-2024-56326: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method
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.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2024-56326
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
Affected Products
Vendor: pallets
Product: jinja
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.13% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 48.7% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://github.com/pallets/jinja/security/advisories/GHSA-q2x7-8rv6-6q7hhttps://github.com/pallets/jinja/commit/48b0687e05a5466a91cd5812d604fa37ad0943b4
https://github.com/pallets/jinja/releases/tag/3.1.5