GHSA-9hcr-9hcv-x6pvHighCVSS 7.5

Flask-AppBuilder Has No Rate Limiting on Login AUTH DB

Published
April 10, 2023
Last Modified
March 7, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

Lack of rate limiting will allow an attacker to brute-force user credentials.

Patches

Ability to enable rate limiting on Flask-AppBuilder >= 4.3.0. Use AUTH_RATE_LIMITED = True and RATELIMIT_ENABLED = True set the limit itself by using AUTH_RATE_LIMIT. Will apply only to database authentication.

Workarounds

Implement rate limiting using a reverse proxy or other strategies.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/Flask-AppBuilder:< 4.3.0

🔗 References (6)