SCA: security update for flask-cors (GHSA-84pr-m4jr-85g5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421411

Description

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

- corydolphin/flask-cors is vulnerable to log injection when the log level is set to debug. An attacker can
inject fake log entries into the log file by sending a specially crafted GET request containing a CRLF
sequence in the request path. This vulnerability allows attackers to corrupt log files, potentially
covering tracks of other attacks, confusing log post-processing tools, and forging log entries. The issue
is due to improper output neutralization for logs. (CVE-2024-1681)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421411

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1681

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1681

cwe: CWE-117

Detections

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