CVE-2018-1000656

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-1000656
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-08-20 19:31:00 UTC
Updated2020-06-09 22:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Pallets Project flask version Before 0.12.3 contains a CWE-20: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in flask that can result in Large amount of memory usage possibly leading to denial of service. This attack appear to be exploitable via Attacker provides JSON data in incorrect encoding. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.12.3. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2019-1010083.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Netapp Active Iq All All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq All All All All
Application Netapp Hyper Converged Infrastructure All All All All
Application Netapp Hyper Converged Infrastructure All All All All
Application Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Utility All All All All
Application Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Utility All All All All
Application Palletsprojects Flask All All All All
Application Palletsprojects Flask All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4378-1: Flask vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
detect UTF encodings when loading json by davidism · Pull Request #2691 · pallets/flask · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1892-1] flask security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Release 0.12.3 · pallets/flask · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
CVE-2018-1000656 Flask Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981304 Python (pip) Security Update for flask (GHSA-562c-5r94-xh97)
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