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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTU2MmMtNXI5NC14aDk3

Flask is vulnerable to Denial of Service via incorrect encoding of JSON data

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-562c-5r94-xh97
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 6 years ago
Updated: 2 months ago


CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-562c-5r94-xh97, CVE-2018-1000656
References: Repository: https://github.com/pallets/flask
Blast Radius: 38.1

Affected Packages

pypi:flask
Dependent packages: 2,451
Dependent repositories: 119,058
Downloads: 105,018,577 last month
Affected Version Ranges: < 0.12.3
Fixed in: 0.12.3
All affected versions: 0.3.1, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.6.1, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.8.1, 0.10.1, 0.11.1, 0.12.1, 0.12.2
All unaffected versions: 0.12.3, 0.12.4, 0.12.5, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.1.0