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CVE-2025-55201: Copier's safe template has arbitrary filesystem read/write access

August 18, 2025

Copier’s current security model shall restrict filesystem access through Jinja:

  • Files can only be read using {% include ... %}, which is limited by Jinja to reading files from the subtree of the local template clone in our case.
  • Files are written in the destination directory according to their counterparts in the template.

Copier suggests that it’s safe to generate a project from a safe template, i.e. one that doesn’t use unsafe features like custom Jinja extensions which would require passing the --UNSAFE,--trust flag. As it turns out, a safe template can currently read and write arbitrary files because we expose a few pathlib.Path objects in the Jinja context which have unconstrained I/O methods. This effectively renders our security model w.r.t. filesystem access useless.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-3xw7-v6cj-5q8h
  • github.com/copier-org/copier
  • github.com/copier-org/copier/commit/3feea3b3ff3c20d80cbb16a2f3b9567ffc5606d1
  • github.com/copier-org/copier/security/advisories/GHSA-3xw7-v6cj-5q8h
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55201

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 9.9.1

Fixed versions

  • 9.9.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 9.9.1 or above.

Weakness

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Source file

pypi/copier/CVE-2025-55201.yml

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