[BUG] -t template.yaml returns "no templates provided"

[LocaMartin]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues.

Current Behavior

Templates passed with -t are silently filtered out

Resulting in:

[FTL] Could not run nuclei: no templates provided for scan

Expected Behavior

Run exactly the template(s) specified

Expected:

• Nuclei loads template.yaml
• Executes the HTTP requests defined inside
• Returns matches if found

Steps To Reproduce

┌──(loca㉿loca)-[~]
└─$ nuclei -t <file>.yaml -u https://example.com

                     __     _
   ____  __  _______/ /__  (_)
  / __ \/ / / / ___/ / _ \/ /
 / / / / /_/ / /__/ /  __/ /
/_/ /_/\__,_/\___/_/\___/_/   v3.6.2

		projectdiscovery.io

[INF] Current nuclei version: v3.6.2 (latest)
[INF] Current nuclei-templates version: v10.3.7 (latest)
[INF] Targets loaded for current scan: 1
[INF] Scan completed in 1.826714ms. No results found.
[FTL] Could not run nuclei: no templates provided for scan
                                                                                
┌──(loca㉿loca)-[~]
└─$ nuclei -t <fullpath/file>.yaml -u https://example.com

                     __     _
   ____  __  _______/ /__  (_)
  / __ \/ / / / ___/ / _ \/ /
 / / / / /_/ / /__/ /  __/ /
/_/ /_/\__,_/\___/_/\___/_/   v3.6.2

		projectdiscovery.io

[INF] Current nuclei version: v3.6.2 (latest)
[INF] Current nuclei-templates version: v10.3.7 (latest)
[INF] Targets loaded for current scan: 1
[INF] Scan completed in 300.702µs. No results found.
[FTL] Could not run nuclei: no templates provided for scan

Relevant log output

Environment

- OS: kali linux
- Nuclei: v3.6.2
- Go: go1.24.9

Anything else?

No response

[dwisiswant0]

How's the template looks like?

[dogancanbakir]

I couldn't repro this -moving it to discussion, btw.

id: test

info:
  name: test
  author: pdteam
  severity: medium
  description: Searches for the pattern /.git/config on passed URLs.

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/.git/config"
    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "[core]"

$ nuclei -t test.yaml -u https://example.com -v

                     __     _
   ____  __  _______/ /__  (_)
  / __ \/ / / / ___/ / _ \/ /
 / / / / /_/ / /__/ /  __/ /
/_/ /_/\__,_/\___/_/\___/_/   v3.6.1

		projectdiscovery.io

[VER] Started metrics server at localhost:9092
[VER] Saved 11728 templates to metadata cache
[INF] Current nuclei version: v3.6.1 (outdated)
[INF] Current nuclei-templates version: v10.3.6 (outdated)
[WRN] Scan results upload to cloud is disabled.
[INF] New templates added in latest release: 176
[INF] Templates loaded for current scan: 1
[WRN] Loading 1 unsigned templates for scan. Use with caution.
[INF] Targets loaded for current scan: 1
[VER] [test] Sent HTTP request to https://example.com/.git/config
[INF] Scan completed in 424.007583ms. No results found.