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High· 7.5GHSA-5wv5-4vpf-pj6m CVE-2019-1010083CWE-400Published Jul 19, 2019

Pallets Project Flask is vulnerable to Denial of Service via Unexpected memory usage

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Affected versions

0 → fixed in 1.0

Details

The Pallets Project Flask before 1.0 is affected by unexpected memory usage. The impact is denial of service. The attack vector is crafted encoded JSON data. The fixed version is 1. NOTE this may overlap CVE-2018-1000656.

The fix

No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.

References