USN-7612-1: Flask-CORS vulnerabilities

USN-7612-1: Flask-CORS vulnerabilities

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/rss.xml / Thu, 07/03/2025 - 05:28
It was discovered that Flask-CORS did not correctly handle certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information or bypass authentication mechanisms. (CVE-2024-6839) It was discovered that Flask-CORS allowed certain CORS headers to be enabled by default. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2024-6221) It was discovered that Flask-CORS did not correctly handle case sensitivity when matching paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. (CVE-2024-6866) It was discovered that Flask-CORS did not correctly handle certain characters in URL paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information or bypass authentication mechanisms. (CVE-2024-6844) Elias Hohl was discovered that Flask-CORS did not correctly sanitize log entries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt log files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-1681)

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