Timing Attack Affecting flask-appbuilder package, versions [,3.4.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-FLASKAPPBUILDER-2388976
  • published1 Feb 2022
  • disclosed1 Feb 2022
  • creditSam Wheating

Introduced: 1 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-21659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Flask-AppBuilder to version 3.4.4 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 Timing Attack which allows for a non-authenticated user to enumerate existing accounts by timing the response time from the server when logging in.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1