pypi package report

Is flask safe?

5 known vulnerabilities, worst severity HIGH.

// reach

9 direct dependencies

3 carry known advisories, worst HIGH

360 packages depend on it

an advisory here reaches each of them

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// ai model usage

No published models are known to use this package.


cvss
7.5
high

CVSS v3.1 base score out of 10

epss
1.3%
medium

chance of exploitation in 30 days, 70th percentile of all CVEs

xyz score
4.9
medium

CyberXYZ composite out of 10

fig. 01 — GHSA-m2qf-hxjv-5gpq, the advisory selected below

// 5 advisories

GHSA-m2qf-hxjv-5gpq

HIGHGitHub ratingCVE-2023-30861

When all of the following conditions are met, a response containing data intended for one client may be cached and subsequently sent by a proxy to other clients. If the proxy also caches Set-Cookie headers, it may send one client's session cookie to other clients. The severity depends on the application's use of the session, and the proxy's behavior regarding cookies. The risk depends on all these conditions being met.

  • The application must be hosted behind a caching proxy that does not strip cookies or ignore responses with cookies.
  • The application sets session.permanent = True.
  • The application does not access or modify the session at any point during a request.
  • SESSION_REFRESH_EACH_REQUEST is enabled (the default).
  • The application does not set a Cache-Control header to indicate that a page is private or should not be cached.

This happens because vulnerable versions of Flask only set the Vary: Cookie header when the session is accessed or modified, not when it is refreshed (re-sent to update the expiration) without being accessed or modified.

// cvss v3.1 vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Checked 2026-11-06 at 22:42 UTC. The most recent advisory here was published 2026-02-19. Updated continuously from NVD, GHSA, OSV and CNA feeds.

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