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PYSEC-2020-43

Quick fix

PYSEC-2020-43 — flask-cors: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'flask-cors>=3.0.9'

Details

An issue was discovered in Flask-CORS (aka CORS Middleware for Flask) before 3.0.9. It allows ../ directory traversal to access private resources because resource matching does not ensure that pathnames are in a canonical format.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/flask-cors

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.0.9

Fixpip install --upgrade 'flask-cors>=3.0.9'

References

https://github.com/corydolphin/flask-cors/releases/tag/3.0.9[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00028.html[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00032.html[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00039.html[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00048.html[WEB]
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4775[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xc3p-ff3m-f46v[ADVISORY]