MEDIUM6.8

PYSEC-2026-749

Path Traversal in scout-browser

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-749 — scout-browser: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'scout-browser>=4.52'

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.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/scout-browser

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 4.52

Fixpip 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]