Debian DLA-1892-1 : flask security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 128038

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Flask, a micro web framework for Python contains a CWE-20: Improper Input Validation vulnerability 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.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.1-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your flask packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128038

File Name: debian_DLA-1892.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/21/2019

Updated: 5/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000656

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-flask, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-flask-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-flask, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000656

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