Flask-HTTPAuth provides Basic, Digest and Token HTTP authentication for Flask routes. Prior to version 4.8.1, in a situation where the client makes a request to a token protected resource without passing a token, or passing an empty token, Flask-HTTPAuth would invoke the application's token verification callback function with the token argument set to an empty string. If the application had any users in its database with an empty string set as their token, then it could potentially authenticate the client request against any of those users. This issue has been patched in version 4.8.1.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-fd53570465 advisory.

    Update to version 4.8.1 (#2454342)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-04d6f223e0 advisory.

    Update to version 4.8.1 (#2454342)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Flask-HTTPAuth provides Basic, Digest and Token HTTP authentication for Flask routes. Prior to version     4.8.1, in a situation where the client makes a request to a token protected resource without passing a     token, or passing an empty token, Flask-HTTPAuth would invoke the application's token verification     callback function with the token argument set to an empty string. If the application had any users in its     database with an empty string set as their token, then it could potentially authenticate the client     request against any of those users. This issue has been patched in version 4.8.1. (CVE-2026-34531)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
310536	Fedora 44 : python-flask-httpauth (2026-fd53570465)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
306618	Fedora 43 : python-flask-httpauth (2026-04d6f223e0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
304754	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-34531	Nessus	Misc.	high

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