CVE-2025-23211: Tandoor Recipes - SSTI - Remote Code Execution

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-1336

Description

Tandoor Recipes is an application for managing recipes, planning meals, and building shopping lists. A Jinja2 SSTI vulnerability allows any user to execute commands on the server. In the case of the provided Docker Compose file as root. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.24.

Affected products

TandoorRecipes recipes: before 1.5.24 — fixed in 1.5.24

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: TandoorRecipes recipes 1.5.24. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/TandoorRecipes/recipes/blob/4f9bff20c858180d0f7376de443a9fe4c123a50c/cookbook/helper/template_helper.py#L95
https://github.com/TandoorRecipes/recipes/commit/e6087d5129cc9d0c24278948872377e66c2a2c20
https://github.com/TandoorRecipes/recipes/security/advisories/GHSA-r6rj-h75w-vj8v
https://github.com/TandoorRecipes/recipes/security/advisories/GHSA-r6rj-h75w-vj8v

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