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CVE-2014-0012

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0012 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Jinja2 versions prior to 2.7.3. The flaw stems from improper temporary directory creation by FileSystemBytecodeCache, allowing a local attacker to pre-create a temporary directory with a user's UID and gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 4.4, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pocoo:jinja2:2.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.4MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Jinja2Fixed in: 2.7.2

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-fqh9-2qgg-h84hmedium

Insecure Temporary File in Jinja2

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2014-0012Moderate

python-jinja2: FileSystemBytecodeCache insecure cache temporary file use, incorrect CVE-2014-1402 fix

Jan 11, 2014

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q1/73
secunia.com / advisories/56328
secunia.com / advisories/60738
github.com / mitsuhiko/jinja2/commit/acb672b6a179567632e032f547582f30fa2f4aa7
ExploitPatch
github.com / mitsuhiko/jinja2/pull/292
github.com / mitsuhiko/jinja2/pull/296
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201408-13.xml