CVE-2022-31571

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2022-31571 · Published 11/07/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-31571 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting python-flask-restful-api (python-flask-restful-api project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 71.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
python-flask-restful-api python-flask-restful-api_project	`≤ 2019-09-16`	No fix yet

Description

The akashtalole/python-flask-restful-api repository through 2019-09-16 on GitHub allows absolute path traversal because the Flask send_file function is used unsafely.

References

github/securitylab · Exploit

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