Vulnerability CVE-2021-23401


Published: 2021-07-05

Description:
This affects all versions of package Flask-User. When using the make_safe_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 or \\\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.

Type:

CWE-601

(URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.8/10
4.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Flask-user project -> Flask-user 

 References:
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-FLASKUSER-1293188
https://github.com/lingthio/Flask-User
https://github.com/lingthio/Flask-User/blob/master/flask_user/user_manager__utils.py

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