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Moderate severityOSV Advisory· Published Jan 21, 2026· Updated Jan 22, 2026

Copier safe template has arbitrary filesystem write access via directory symlinks when _preserve_symlinks: true

CVE-2026-23986

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 write to arbitrary directories outside the destination path by using directory a symlink along with _preserve_symlinks: true and a generated directory structure whose rendered path is inside the symlinked directory. This way, a malicious template author can create a template that overwrites arbitrary files (according to the user's write permissions), e.g., to cause havoc. Version 9.11.2 patches the issue.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
copierPyPI
< 9.11.29.11.2

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