Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-flask  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PYTHONFLASK-6815664
  • published9 May 2024
  • disclosed10 Apr 2018

Introduced: 10 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-1000656  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-flask package and not the python-flask package as distributed by RHEL.

The Pallets Project flask version Before 0.12.3 contains a CWE-20: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in flask that can result in Large amount of memory usage possibly leading to denial of service. This attack appear to be exploitable via Attacker provides JSON data in incorrect encoding. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.12.3. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2019-1010083.