copier

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Audited by Snyk on Aug 22, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

  • Third-party content exposure detected (low risk: 0.10). Copier’s required runtime workflow reads and renders template contents (e.g., copier.yml, .jinja files, and _tasks/migration definitions) from the specified Git template source, which can include outsider-authored free text when the template repo is user-supplied.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill's docs (e.g. references/cli-api.md) show runtime use of remote template sources like "gh:org/template", "gl:org/template", and "git+https://example.com/t.git" which Copier will fetch at runtime and whose repo files (copier.yml, _tasks, migrations, _jinja_extensions) can control prompts and execute arbitrary shell when run with --trust.

Issues (2)

W011
MEDIUM

Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Aug 22, 2026, 10:38 AM
Issues
2
Security Audit — snyk — copier