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CVE-2025-27516VulnerabilityPublished Updated

CVE-2025-27516: Locust · Jinja2 vulnerable to sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method

Affects locustSource GCVE Database

0

Not known to be exploited : upgrade to 2.33.0_1 soon.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar · CVSS not yet scored by NVD

EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 42% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 2.33.0_1
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 13 Aug 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

What to do

Upgrade locust to 2.33.0_1.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Homebrewlocustpkg:brew/locustOther threatsAffected
  • >=2.2.1 <2.33.0_1
Fixed in
  • 2.33.0_1

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AI-suggested

If you cannot patch yet, users should avoid executing untrusted templates or restrict template content control to trusted users only. Applying mitigations depends on the specific application context. Red Hat provides support channels for customers to discuss mitigation options with technical account managers.

Description

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.

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