Access Restriction Bypass Affecting flask-appbuilder package, versions [,3.3.4)


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.19% (56th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-FLASKAPPBUILDER-2314892
  • published 10 Dec 2021
  • disclosed 9 Dec 2021
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade Flask-AppBuilder to version 3.3.4 or higher.

Overview

Flask-AppBuilder is a simple and rapid application development framework, built on top of Flask. includes detailed security, auto CRUD generation for your models, google charts and much more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass due to improper authentication on the REST API. This allows for a malicious actor with a carefully crafted request to successfully authenticate and gain access to existing protected REST API endpoints.

Only affects non-database authentication types, and new REST API endpoints.

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