CVE-2026-61536: Banks: Unsafe importlib.import_module of attacker-controlled Tool.import_path in CompletionExtension allows RCE
banks parses Tool JSON objects from the rendered body of {% completion %} blocks and later resolves their
import_path field through importlib.import_module(...) + getattr(...) to obtain the callable that handles a tool
call. There is no allowlist or sanitization on import_path, so any importable Python attribute (e.g. os.system,
subprocess.getoutput) can be selected. When the LLM emits a tool_calls entry whose function.name matches the
attacker-supplied tool name, the resolved callable is invoked with kwargs decoded from tool_call.function.arguments,
yielding arbitrary code execution in the banks-hosting process.
This is distinct from GHSA-gphh-9q3h-jgpp / CVE-2026-44209. That advisory was fixed in 2.4.2 by switching
src/banks/env.py from Environment to SandboxedEnvironment. The fix does not touch
src/banks/extensions/completion.py, and the unsafe import + getattr chain still executes on 2.4.2. The malicious
Tool JSON is plain text in the rendered template body — it requires no Jinja attribute access, so the sandbox is
irrelevant.
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