It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2MOCK2-2025-001 advisory.

    The Mock software contains a vulnerability wherein an attacker could potentially exploit privilege     escalation, enabling the execution of arbitrary code with root user privileges. This weakness stems from     the absence of proper sandboxing during the expansion and execution of Jinja2 templates, which may be     included in certain configuration parameters. While the Mock documentation advises treating users added to     the mock group as privileged, certain build systems invoking mock on behalf of users might inadvertently     permit less privileged users to define configuration tags. These tags could then be passed as parameters     to mock during execution, potentially leading to the utilization of Jinja2 templates for remote privilege     escalation and the execution of arbitrary code as the root user on the build server. (CVE-2023-6395)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux 2 : python-templated-dictionary, --advisory ALAS2MOCK2-2025-001 (ALASMOCK2-2025-001)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 265322

Version 1.2