Sandbox

The Jinja2 sandbox can be used to evaluate untrusted code. Access to unsafe attributes and methods is prohibited.

Assuming env is a SandboxedEnvironment in the default configuration the following piece of code shows how it works:

>>> env.from_string("{{ func.func_code }}").render(func=lambda:None)
u''
>>> env.from_string("{{ func.func_code.do_something }}").render(func=lambda:None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
SecurityError: access to attribute 'func_code' of 'function' object is unsafe.

API

class jinja2.sandbox.SandboxedEnvironment([options])

The sandboxed environment. It works like the regular environment but tells the compiler to generate sandboxed code. Additionally subclasses of this environment may override the methods that tell the runtime what attributes or functions are safe to access.

If the template tries to access insecure code a SecurityError is raised. However also other exceptions may occur during the rendering so the caller has to ensure that all exceptions are caught.

is_safe_attribute(obj, attr, value)

The sandboxed environment will call this method to check if the attribute of an object is safe to access. Per default all attributes starting with an underscore are considered private as well as the special attributes of internal python objects as returned by the is_internal_attribute() function.

is_safe_callable(obj)

Check if an object is safely callable. Per default a function is considered safe unless the unsafe_callable attribute exists and is True. Override this method to alter the behavior, but this won’t affect the unsafe decorator from this module.

default_binop_table = {'//': <built-in function floordiv>, '%': <built-in function mod>, '+': <built-in function add>, '*': <built-in function mul>, '-': <built-in function sub>, '/': <built-in function truediv>, '**': <built-in function pow>}

default callback table for the binary operators. A copy of this is available on each instance of a sandboxed environment as binop_table

default_unop_table = {'+': <built-in function pos>, '-': <built-in function neg>}

default callback table for the unary operators. A copy of this is available on each instance of a sandboxed environment as unop_table

intercepted_binops = frozenset([])

a set of binary operators that should be intercepted. Each operator that is added to this set (empty by default) is delegated to the call_binop() method that will perform the operator. The default operator callback is specified by binop_table.

The following binary operators are interceptable: //, %, +, *, -, /, and **

The default operation form the operator table corresponds to the builtin function. Intercepted calls are always slower than the native operator call, so make sure only to intercept the ones you are interested in.

New in version 2.6.

intercepted_unops = frozenset([])

a set of unary operators that should be intercepted. Each operator that is added to this set (empty by default) is delegated to the call_unop() method that will perform the operator. The default operator callback is specified by unop_table.

The following unary operators are interceptable: +, -

The default operation form the operator table corresponds to the builtin function. Intercepted calls are always slower than the native operator call, so make sure only to intercept the ones you are interested in.

New in version 2.6.

call_binop(context, operator, left, right)

For intercepted binary operator calls (intercepted_binops()) this function is executed instead of the builtin operator. This can be used to fine tune the behavior of certain operators.

New in version 2.6.

call_unop(context, operator, arg)

For intercepted unary operator calls (intercepted_unops()) this function is executed instead of the builtin operator. This can be used to fine tune the behavior of certain operators.

New in version 2.6.

class jinja2.sandbox.ImmutableSandboxedEnvironment([options])

Works exactly like the regular SandboxedEnvironment but does not permit modifications on the builtin mutable objects list, set, and dict by using the modifies_known_mutable() function.

exception jinja2.sandbox.SecurityError(message=None)

Raised if a template tries to do something insecure if the sandbox is enabled.

jinja2.sandbox.unsafe(f)

Marks a function or method as unsafe.

@unsafe
def delete(self):
    pass

jinja2.sandbox.is_internal_attribute(obj, attr)

Test if the attribute given is an internal python attribute. For example this function returns True for the func_code attribute of python objects. This is useful if the environment method is_safe_attribute() is overridden.

>>> from jinja2.sandbox import is_internal_attribute
>>> is_internal_attribute(lambda: None, "func_code")
True
>>> is_internal_attribute((lambda x:x).func_code, 'co_code')
True
>>> is_internal_attribute(str, "upper")
False

jinja2.sandbox.modifies_known_mutable(obj, attr)

This function checks if an attribute on a builtin mutable object (list, dict, set or deque) would modify it if called. It also supports the “user”-versions of the objects (sets.Set, UserDict.* etc.) and with Python 2.6 onwards the abstract base classes MutableSet, MutableMapping, and MutableSequence.

>>> modifies_known_mutable({}, "clear")
True
>>> modifies_known_mutable({}, "keys")
False
>>> modifies_known_mutable([], "append")
True
>>> modifies_known_mutable([], "index")
False

If called with an unsupported object (such as unicode) False is returned.

>>> modifies_known_mutable("foo", "upper")
False

Note

The Jinja2 sandbox alone is no solution for perfect security. Especially for web applications you have to keep in mind that users may create templates with arbitrary HTML in so it’s crucial to ensure that (if you are running multiple users on the same server) they can’t harm each other via JavaScript insertions and much more.

Also the sandbox is only as good as the configuration. We strongly recommend only passing non-shared resources to the template and use some sort of whitelisting for attributes.

Also keep in mind that templates may raise runtime or compile time errors, so make sure to catch them.

Operator Intercepting

New in version 2.6.

For maximum performace Jinja2 will let operators call directly the type specific callback methods. This means that it’s not possible to have this intercepted by overriding Environment.call(). Furthermore a conversion from operator to special method is not always directly possible due to how operators work. For instance for divisions more than one special method exist.

With Jinja 2.6 there is now support for explicit operator intercepting. This can be used to customize specific operators as necessary. In order to intercept an operator one has to override the SandboxedEnvironment.intercepted_binops attribute. Once the operator that needs to be intercepted is added to that set Jinja2 will generate bytecode that calls the SandboxedEnvironment.call_binop() function. For unary operators the unary attributes and methods have to be used instead.

The default implementation of SandboxedEnvironment.call_binop will use the SandboxedEnvironment.binop_table to translate operator symbols into callbacks performing the default operator behavior.

This example shows how the power (**) operator can be disabled in Jinja2:

from jinja2.sandbox import SandboxedEnvironment


class MyEnvironment(SandboxedEnvironment):
    intercepted_binops = frozenset(['**'])

    def call_binop(self, context, operator, left, right):
        if operator == '**':
            return self.undefined('the power operator is unavailable')
        return SandboxedEnvironment.call_binop(self, context,
                                               operator, left, right)

Make sure to always call into the super method, even if you are not intercepting the call. Jinja2 might internally call the method to evaluate expressions.