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Ubuntu: USN-6019-1 (CVE-2020-25032): Flask-CORS vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 31, 2020
Added
Apr 17, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-python3-flask-cors
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