In short
- CVE-2021-32838 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting flask-restx, flask-restx (flask-restx project).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 79.4% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 0.5.1 or later.
Description
Flask RESTX contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) in email_regex.
NVD description
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.
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