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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2023-52289

An unauthenticated directory traversal, exploitable with a POST request to a /update-resource-data/<file_path> URI (from views.py), allows attackers to write to arbitrary files.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 0.72%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.72%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in the flaskcode package through 0.0.8 for Python. An unauthenticated directory traversal, exploitable with a POST request to a /update-resource-data/<file_path> URI (from views.py), allows attackers to write to arbitrary files.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.72% probability · 52th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-22
Affected
sujeetkv/flaskcode
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.