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SCA: security update for flask-restx (GHSA-3q6g-vf58-7m4g)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409646

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2021-32838)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3q6g-vf58-7m4g

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409646

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.66

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32838

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32838