CVE-2022-24065: Command Injection

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

The package cookiecutter before 2.1.1 are vulnerable to Command Injection via hg argument injection. When calling the cookiecutter function from Python code with the checkout parameter, it is passed to the hg checkout command in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.

Affected products

Cookiecutter Project Cookiecutter: before 2.1.1 — fixed in 2.1.1
Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cookiecutter Project Cookiecutter 2.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter/commit/fdffddb31fd2b46344dfa317531ff155e7999f77
https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter/releases/tag/2.1.1
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G5TXC4JYTNGOUFMCXPZ6QKWEZN3URTAK/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HQKWT7SGFDCUPPLDIELTN7FVTHWDL5YK/
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-COOKIECUTTER-2414281
https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter/commit/fdffddb31fd2b46344dfa317531ff155e7999f77
https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter/releases/tag/2.1.1
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G5TXC4JYTNGOUFMCXPZ6QKWEZN3URTAK/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HQKWT7SGFDCUPPLDIELTN7FVTHWDL5YK/
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-COOKIECUTTER-2414281

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