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CVE-2022-24880: Potential Captcha Validate Bypass in flask-session-captcha

April 26, 2022 (updated September 20, 2024)

flask-session-captcha is a package which allows users to extend Flask by adding an image based captcha stored in a server side session.

The captcha.validate() function would return None if passed no value (e.g. by submitting a request with an empty form).

If implementing users were checking the return value to be False, the captcha verification check could be bypassed.

Sample vulnerable code:

if captcha.validate() == False:
... # abort
else:
... # do stuff

References

  • github.com/Tethik/flask-session-captcha
  • github.com/Tethik/flask-session-captcha/commit/2811ae23a38d33b620fb7a07de8837c6d65c13e4
  • github.com/Tethik/flask-session-captcha/pull/27
  • github.com/Tethik/flask-session-captcha/releases/tag/v1.2.1
  • github.com/Tethik/flask-session-captcha/security/advisories/GHSA-7r87-cj48-wj45
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-7r87-cj48-wj45
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/flask-session-captcha/PYSEC-2022-193.yaml
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24880

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.2.1

Fixed versions

  • 1.2.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.2.1 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-253: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value
  • CWE-394: Unexpected Status Code or Return Value
  • CWE-754: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

Source file

pypi/flask-session-captcha/CVE-2022-24880.yml

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