Improper Input Validation Affecting flask package, versions [,0.12.3)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.37% (73rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-FLASK-42185
- published 21 Aug 2018
- disclosed 10 Apr 2018
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 10 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-1000656 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade flask to version 0.12.3 or higher.
Overview
flask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. It did not detect the encoding of incoming JSON data as one of the supported UTF encodings, and allowed arbitrary encodings from the request.
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CVSS Scores
version 3.1