pypi package report

Is cookiecutter safe?

1 known vulnerability, worst severity CRITICAL.

// reach

8 direct dependencies

3 carry known advisories, worst CRITICAL

29 packages depend on it

an advisory here reaches each of them

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// ai model usage

No published models are known to use this package.

cvss
8.1
high

CVSS v3.1 base score out of 10; GitHub rates it CRITICAL

epss
4.2%
medium

chance of exploitation in 30 days, 91st percentile of all CVEs

xyz score
5.0
medium

CyberXYZ composite out of 10

fig. 01 — GHSA-f4q6-9qm4-h8j4, the advisory selected below

// 1 advisories

GHSA-f4q6-9qm4-h8j4

CRITICALGitHub ratingCVE-2022-24065

The package cookiecutter before 2.1.1 is 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.

// cvss v3.1 vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Checked 2026-11-06 at 21:55 UTC. The most recent advisory here was published 2022-06-09. Updated continuously from NVD, GHSA, OSV and CNA feeds.

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