Vulnerability CVE-2021-23393


Published: 2021-06-11

Description:
This affects the package Flask-Unchained before 0.9.0. When using the the _validate_redirect_url function, it is possible to bypass URL validation and redirect a user to an arbitrary URL by providing multiple back slashes such as \\\evil.com/path. This vulnerability is only exploitable if an alternative WSGI server other than Werkzeug is used, or the default behaviour of Werkzeug is modified using 'autocorrect_location_header=False.

 References:
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-FLASKUNCHAINED-1293189
https://github.com/briancappello/flask-unchained/commit/71e36b28166f9ffbe0a991f51127f0984f7e6a40

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