PYSEC-2014-82

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    PYSEC-2014-82

    Published: 19 May 2014Last Modified: 10 Jun 2026

    Summary:

    Details: FileSystemBytecodeCache in Jinja2 2.7.2 does not properly create temporary directories, which allows local users to gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary directory with a user's uid. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1402.

    References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051421, https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/pull/292, https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/commit/acb672b6a179567632e032f547582f30fa2f4aa7, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/73, https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/pull/296, http://secunia.com/advisories/60738, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201408-13.xml, http://secunia.com/advisories/56328, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fqh9-2qgg-h84h

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: jinja2

    Purl: pkg:pypi/jinja2

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -acb672b6a179567632e032f547582f30fa2f4aa7

    Affected versions

    2.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High