CVE-2025-47278

Public on 2025-05-13
Modified on 2025-05-15
Description
Flask is a web server gateway interface (WSGI) web application framework. In Flask 3.1.0, the way fallback key configuration was handled resulted in the last fallback key being used for signing, rather than the current signing key. Signing is provided by the `itsdangerous` library. A list of keys can be passed, and it expects the last (top) key in the list to be the most recent key, and uses that for signing. Flask was incorrectly constructing that list in reverse, passing the signing key first. Sites that have opted-in to use key rotation by setting `SECRET_KEY_FALLBACKS` care likely to unexpectedly be signing their sessions with stale keys, and their transition to fresher keys will be impeded. Sessions are still signed, so this would not cause any sort of data integrity loss. Version 3.1.1 contains a patch for the issue.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.3
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
HAQM Linux 2023 python-flask Pending Fix

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
HAQM Linux CVSSv3 2.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L