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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.19% (57th percentile)

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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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.1 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

8.8 high