Information Exposure Affecting flask-security package, versions [,5.5.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-FLASKSECURITY-7856167
  • published 2 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 1 Sep 2024
  • credit Chris Wagner

Introduced: 1 Sep 2024

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Flask-Security to version 5.5.1 or higher.

Overview

Flask-Security is a Simple security for Flask apps.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An attacker could send a GET request to /login?include_auth_token that returns an authentication token without performing a CSRF check.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    Low
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    None
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None