CVE-2022-31571

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

Python-Flask-Restful-Api Project Python-Flask-Restful-Api: through 2019-09-16

References

https://github.com/github/securitylab/issues/669#issuecomment-1117265726
https://github.com/github/securitylab/issues/669#issuecomment-1117265726

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