CVE-2024-34064 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.4) Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jinja2. A fix is available for jinja2 — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Jinja vulnerable to HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-34064.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
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Real-World Exposure
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Description
Jinja is an extensible templating engine. The xmlattr filter in affected versions of Jinja accepts keys containing non-attribute characters. XML/HTML attributes cannot contain spaces, /, >, or =, as each would then be interpreted as starting a separate attribute. If an application accepts keys (as opposed to only values) as user input, and renders these in pages that other users see as well, an attacker could use this to inject other attributes and perform XSS. The fix for CVE-2024-22195 only addressed spaces but not other characters. Accepting keys as user input is now explicitly considered an unintended use case of the xmlattr filter, and code that does so without otherwise validating the input should be flagged as insecure, regardless of Jinja version. Accepting values as user input continues to be safe. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.4.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | jinja2 | all versions | 3.1.4pip install --upgrade 'jinja2==3.1.4' |
Affected Products
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Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for jinja2, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update jinja2 to 3.1.4 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-34064 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Escape or sanitise the affected output on the server side rather than relying on client-side filtering, and add a Content-Security-Policy that blocks inline script execution so injected markup cannot run even if it reaches the page.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
The fix for CVE-2024-22195 only addressed spaces, not other characters. Accepting keys as user input is now explicitly considered an unintended use case of the `xmlattr` filter, and code that does so without otherwise validating the input should be flagged as insecure, regardless of Jinja version. Accepting _values_…
Do not accept user input as keys to the xmlattr filter without validation. See the statement above for more information.Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2024-34064 (CC BY 4.0)
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Ironic content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 | python-jinja2-0:3.0.1-3.el9.1 | RHSA-2024:5810 |
| Ironic content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 | python-jinja2-0:3.0.1-3.el9.1 | RHSA-2024:6011 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 | python3x-jinja2-0:3.1.4-1.el8ap | RHSA-2024:3781 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 | automation-controller-0:4.5.8-1.el8ap | RHSA-2024:4522 |
| Red Hat Developer Hub 1.2 on RHEL 9 | rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9:1.2-105 | RHEA-2024:4071 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | python-jinja2-0:2.10.1-5.el8_10 | RHSA-2024:4231 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support | fence-agents-0:4.2.1-65.el8_4.15 | RHSA-2024:3795 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support | fence-agents-0:4.2.1-89.el8_6.12 | RHSA-2024:4404 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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