Unsafe variable evaluation in email templates
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
Emails sent by pretix can utilize placeholders that will be filled with customer data. For example, when {name} is used in an email template, it will be replaced with the buyer's name for the final email. This mechanism contained two security-relevant bugs: * It was possible to exfiltrate information about the pretix system through specially crafted placeholder names such as {{event.__init__.__code__.co_filename}}. This way, an attacker with the ability to control email templates (usually every user of the pretix backend) could retrieve sensitive information from the system configuration, including even database passwords or API keys. pretix does include mechanisms to prevent the usage of such malicious placeholders, however due to a mistake in the code, they were not fully effective for the email subject. * Placeholders in subjects and plain text bodies of emails were wrongfully evaluated twice. Therefore, if the first evaluation of a placeholder again contains a placeholder, this second placeholder was rendered. This allows the rendering of placeholders controlled by the ticket buyer, and therefore the exploitation of the first issue as a ticket buyer. Luckily, the only buyer-controlled placeholder available in pretix by default (that is not validated in a way that prevents the issue) is {invoice_company}, which is very unusual (but not impossible) to be contained in an email subject template. In addition to broadening the attack surface of the first issue, this could theoretically also leak information about an order to one of the attendees within that order. However, we also consider this scenario very unlikely under typical conditions. Out of caution, we recommend that you rotate all passwords and API keys contained in your pretix.cfg https://docs.pretix.eu/self-hosting/config/ file.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pretix | pretix | 4.16.0 to before 2025.9.0; 2025.9.0 to before 2025.10.0; 2025.10.0 to before 2026.1.0; 2026.1.0 to before 2026.1.1 | 2026.1.1 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | pretix (PyPI) | 2026.1.0 to before 2026.1.1 | 2026.1.1 | Patch available | GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv |
| — | pretix (PyPI) | 2025.10.0 to before 2025.10.2 | 2025.10.2 | Patch available | GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv |
| — | pretix (PyPI) | before 2025.9.4 | 2025.9.4 | Patch available | GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv |
- pretix Vendorpretix Affected 4.16.0 to before 2025.9.0; 2025.9.0 to before 2025.10.0; 2025.10.0 to before 2026.1.0; 2026.1.0 to before 2026.1.1 Fixed in 2026.1.1 Patch available CNA
- pretix (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 2026.1.0 to before 2026.1.1 Fixed in 2026.1.1 Patch available GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv
- pretix (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 2025.10.0 to before 2025.10.2 Fixed in 2025.10.2 Patch available GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv
- pretix (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 2025.9.4 Fixed in 2025.9.4 Patch available GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv
Remediation
- Fix · CNA pretix (pretix) Fixed in 2026.1.1
- Fix · GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv pretix (PyPI) Fixed in 2026.1.1 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv pretix (PyPI) Fixed in 2025.10.2 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv pretix (PyPI) Fixed in 2025.9.4 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-2415
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv
References
Other 5
- https://github.com/pretix/pretix/commit/ba11d24f8dfa4e9d8f03493e56fd8b43983fe297
- https://github.com/pretix/pretix/commit/c85afbc621b5f0b1afa618627c45f89323eb0154
- https://github.com/pretix/pretix/commit/edac35ed4c5466eb63a202575c337d117ddf1c8e
- https://github.com/pretix/pretix
- https://pretix.eu/about/en/blog/20260216-release-2026-1-1
More Pretix vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-18268 pretix before 2024.1.1 mishandles file validation. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-02082 Unsafe variable evaluation in email templates CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-02081 Unsafe variable evaluation in email templates CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2024-07522 Stored XSS in Placeholder Samples in Mail Preview CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.2
- TI-2026-04908 A new API endpoint introduced in pretix 2025 that is supposed to return all check-in… CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.5
- TI-2025-12562 Limited HTML injection in emails CVSS 4.0LOW 2.4
Sources
- CVE-2026-2415 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-2415 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-r8p8-qw9w-j9qv · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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