CVE-2021-32838 HIGH

CVE-2021-32838: Regular Expression Denial of Service in flask-restx

Vendor Python-Restx
Product flask-restx
Weakness CWE-400
Published September 20, 2021
Last update August 3, 2024
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CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Flask-RESTX (pypi package flask-restx) is a community driven fork of Flask-RESTPlus. Flask-RESTX before version 0.5.1 is vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) in email_regex. This is fixed in version 0.5.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 20, 2021 CVE published
August 3, 2024 Record updated