Improper Access Control Affecting flask-cors package, versions [4.0.0,5.0.0)
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.08% (37th
percentile)
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- published 19 Aug 2024
- disclosed 18 Aug 2024
- credit tomorrowisnew_
Introduced: 18 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-6221 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Flask-Cors to version 5.0.0 or higher.
Overview
Flask-Cors is an A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control due to the default configuration of the Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network CORS header. An attacker can expose private network resources to unauthorized external access by leveraging this default setting.