CVE-2026-55415: datamodel-code-generator vulnerable to code injection via `x-python-import` / `customTypePath` in generated import statements
A malicious input schema (OpenAPI / JSON Schema) can execute arbitrary Python code on the machine that imports the generated model. The x-python-import and customTypePath schema extensions flow, unsanitized, into the import statements datamodel-code-generator emits. A newline embedded in the extension value breaks out of the from … import … line and injects an attacker-controlled statement at module scope, which runs at import time. This is an unauthenticated, schema-content–driven remote code execution against any consumer of the generated code (e.g. arbitrary file read,the PoC exfiltrates /etc/passwd). It survives the v0.61.0 security release that fixed the related x-python-type, default_factory, GraphQL-union-description, and validators sinks those fixes did not cover this sibling path.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-5578-w22f-pfx9
- github.com/koxudaxi/datamodel-code-generator/commit/577d49569c2254c371a97e495020ae2238a73b84
- github.com/koxudaxi/datamodel-code-generator/releases/tag/0.64.0
- github.com/koxudaxi/datamodel-code-generator/security/advisories/GHSA-5578-w22f-pfx9
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55415
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