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CVE-2026-45017 (GCVE-0-2026-45017)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 14:24 – Updated: 2026-05-28 15:57

Title

Python Liquid: Absolute paths escape filesystem loader search path

Summary

Python Liquid is a Python engine for the Liquid template language. Prior to 2.2.0, the built-in FileSystemLoader and CachingFileSystemLoader do not guard against reading files outside their search paths when given an absolute path to resolve. This allows malicious template authors to load and render arbitrary files via the {% include %} and {% render %} tags. Targeted files would need to contain valid Liquid markup and be readable by the application process. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.2.0.

Severity

8.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

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

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/jg-rp/liquid/security/advisori…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
jg-rp	liquid	Affected: < 2.2.0

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GHSA-8P4X-WR7X-3788

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-11 14:57 – Updated: 2026-05-11 14:57

Summary

python-liquid: Absolute paths escape filesystem loader search path

Details

Impact

The built-in FileSystemLoader and CachingFileSystemLoader do not guard against reading files outside their search paths when given an absolute path to resolve. This allows malicious template authors to load and render arbitrary files via the {% include %} and {% render %} tags. Targeted files would need to contain valid Liquid markup and be readable by the application process.

Patches

The issue is fixed in version 2.2.0 with the inclusion of a template_path.is_absolute() condition in liquid/builtin/loaders/file_system_loader.py.

        if os.path.pardir in template_path.parts or template_path.is_absolute():
            raise TemplateNotFoundError(template_name)

Workarounds

Create a custom template loader by inheriting from FileSystemLoader and overriding resolve_path(). Use an instance of the custom loader as the loader argument when instantiating your Liquid environment.

import os
from pathlib import Path

from liquid import Environment
from liquid import FileSystemLoader
from liquid.exceptions import TemplateNotFoundError


class MyFileSystemLoader(FileSystemLoader):
    def resolve_path(self, template_name: str) -> Path:
        template_path = Path(template_name)

        if self.ext and not template_path.suffix:
            template_path = template_path.with_suffix(self.ext)

        if os.path.pardir in template_path.parts or template_path.is_absolute():
            raise TemplateNotFoundError(template_name)

        for path in self.search_path:
            source_path = path.joinpath(template_path)
            if not source_path.exists():
                continue
            return source_path

        raise TemplateNotFoundError(template_name)


env = Environment(loader=MyFileSystemLoader("path/to/templates/"))

Severity

8.2 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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