CVE-2014-0012
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (37th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-0024)
- Published
- May 19, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-0024 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- pocoo / jinja2
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/73
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56328
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60738
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201408-13.xml
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051421
- https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/commit/acb672b6a179567632e032f547582f30fa2f4aa7(Exploit, Patch)
- https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/pull/292
- https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/pull/296
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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