Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-41205: Mako is a template library written in Python. Prior to 1.3.11, TemplateLookup.get_template() is vulnerable to path traversal when a URI starts with // (e.g., //../../../secret.txt). The root cause is an inconsistency between two slash-stripping implementations. Any file readable by the process can be returned as rendered template content when an application passes untrusted input directly to TemplateLookup.get_template(). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.3.11.
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2 | python-mako | 0:0.8.1-2.amzn2.0.2 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.7
Mako: Path traversal via double-slash URI prefix in TemplateLookup
Mako is a template library written in Python. Prior to 1.3.11, TemplateLookup.get_template() is vulnerable to path traversal when a URI starts with // (e.g., //../../../secret.txt). The root cause is an inconsistency between two slash-stripping implementation…
References
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web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-41205.html