CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2021-32838
High (7.5). EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in flask-restx 0.5.1.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-400
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- flask-restx_project:flask-restx
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-3q6g-vf58-7m4g | PyPI | flask-restx | <0.5.1 | 0.5.1 |
| PYSEC-2021-325 | PyPI | flask-restx | <0.5.1 | 0.5.1 |
References
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3q6g-vf58-7m4g
- https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/blob/fd99fe11a88531f5f3441a278f7020589f9d2cc0/flask_restx/inputs.py#L51
- https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/commit/bab31e085f355dd73858fd3715f7ed71849656da
- https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/issues/372
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5UCTFVDU3677B5OBGK4EF5NMUPJLL6SQ/