GHSA-8vgw-p6qm-5gr7MediumCVSS 5.3

Flask-CORS allows for inconsistent CORS matching

Published
March 20, 2025
Last Modified
November 3, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A vulnerability in corydolphin/flask-cors version 5.0.1 allows for inconsistent CORS matching due to the handling of the '+' character in URL paths. The request.path is passed through the unquote_plus function, which converts the '+' character to a space ' '. This behavior leads to incorrect path normalization, causing potential mismatches in CORS configuration. As a result, endpoints may not be matched correctly to their CORS settings, leading to unexpected CORS policy application. This can cause unauthorized cross-origin access or block valid requests, creating security vulnerabilities and usability issues.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/flask-cors:<= 5.0.1

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