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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-FLASKAPPBUILDER-2388976
  • published 1 Feb 2022
  • disclosed 1 Feb 2022
  • credit Sam Wheating

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
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Snyk

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

5.3 medium