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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2026-23968 EUVD-2026-4142GHSA-xjhm-gp88-8pfxPYSEC-2026-1274

Copier safe template has arbitrary filesystem read access via symlinks when _preserve_symlinks: false

Published Jan 21, 2026 · Updated Jan 22, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Copier is a library and CLI app for rendering project templates. Prior to version 9.11.2, Copier suggests that it's safe to generate a project from a safe template, i.e. one that doesn't use unsafe features like custom Jinja extensions which would require passing the `--UNSAFE,--trust` flag. As it turns out, a safe template can currently include arbitrary files/directories outside the local template clone location by using symlinks along with `_preserve_symlinks: false` (which is Copier's default setting). Version 9.11.2 patches the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
copier-org copier < 9.11.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI copier < 9.11.2 9.11.2 GHSA-xjhm-gp88-8pfx

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