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High
CVE-2021-32838
Regular Expression Denial of Service in flask-restx
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3q6g-vf58-7m4g
- https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/issues/372
- https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/commit/bab31e085f355dd73858fd3715f7ed71849656da
- https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/blob/fd99fe11a88531f5f3441a278f7020589f9d2cc0/flask_restx/inputs.py#L51
- https://pypi.org/project/flask-restx/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5UCTFVDU3677B5OBGK4EF5NMUPJLL6SQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QUD6SWZLX52AAZUHDETJ2CDMQGEPGFL3/
Affected Vendor
python-restx
View all reports →Affected Software
flask-restx
Vulnerable Versions:
< 0.5.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 20th, 2021
Last Modified:
August 3rd, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H