MEDIUM 6.8
PYSEC-2026-749
Path Traversal in scout-browser
Details
Scout is a Variant Call Format (VCF) visualization interface. The Pypi package `scout-browser` is vulnerable to path traversal due to `send_file` call in versions prior to 4.52.
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Affected packages
PyPI / scout-browser
Introduced in:
0 Fixed in: 4.52 Fix
pip install --upgrade 'scout-browser>=4.52' References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1554 [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/Clinical-Genomics/scout/issues/3128 [WEB]
- https://github.com/Clinical-Genomics/scout/issues/3302 [WEB]
- https://github.com/Clinical-Genomics/scout/pull/3303 [WEB]
- https://github.com/clinical-genomics/scout/commit/952a2e2319af2d95d22b017a561730feac086ff1 [WEB]
- https://github.com/clinical-genomics/scout [PACKAGE]
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/7acac778-5ba4-4f02-99e2-e4e17a81e600 [WEB]
- https://pypi.org/project/scout-browser [PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-694v-63fq-fmr4 [ADVISORY]