USN-6599-1: Jinja2 vulnerabilities

Publication date

25 January 2024

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in jinja2.


Packages

  • jinja2 - small but fast and easy to use stand-alone template engine

Details

Yeting Li discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled certain regex.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-28493)

It was discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled certain HTML passed with
xmlatter filter. An attacker could inject arbitrary HTML attributes
keys and values potentially leading to XSS. (CVE-2024-22195)

Yeting Li discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled certain regex.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-28493)

It was discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled certain HTML passed with
xmlatter filter. An attacker could inject arbitrary HTML attributes
keys and values potentially leading to XSS. (CVE-2024-22195)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
23.10 mantic python3-jinja2 –  3.1.2-1ubuntu0.23.10.1
22.04 jammy python3-jinja2 –  3.0.3-1ubuntu0.1
20.04 focal python-jinja2 –  2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2
python3-jinja2 –  2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2
18.04 bionic python-jinja2 –  2.10-1ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm1  
python3-jinja2 –  2.10-1ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm1  
16.04 xenial python-jinja2 –  2.8-1ubuntu0.1+esm2  
python3-jinja2 –  2.8-1ubuntu0.1+esm2  
14.04 trusty python-jinja2 –  2.7.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm2  
python3-jinja2 –  2.7.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm2  

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