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GHSA-43qf-4rqw-9q2g

Flask-CORS vulnerable to Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2024-6866

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI flask-cors < 6.0.0 6.0.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

corydolphin/flask-cors version 5.0.1 contains a vulnerability where the request path matching is case-insensitive due to the use of the `try_match` function, which is originally intended for matching hosts. This results in a mismatch because paths in URLs are case-sensitive, but the regex matching treats them as case-insensitive. This misconfiguration can lead to significant security vulnerabilities, allowing unauthorized origins to access paths meant to be restricted, resulting in data exposure and potential data leaks.

References

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