CVE-2023-52288: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

January 13, 2024 (updated January 24, 2024)

An issue was discovered in the flaskcode package through 0.0.8 for Python. An unauthenticated directory traversal, exploitable with a GET request to a /resource-data/<file_path>.txt URI (from views.py), allows attackers to read arbitrary files.

References

gitlab.com/daniele_m/cve-list/-/blob/main/README.md
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52288

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