01 Record
CVE-2021-32838
Regular Expression Denial of Service in flask-restx
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score7.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
02 Description
Regular Expression Denial of Service in flask-restx
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.86% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 79.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-09-20 17:30Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 23:33Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-05-12
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b829d83f328bcbcb865f11b153b1d4d928c00ae5ec9d24ac32e4bf0f080d9a9b
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3q6g-vf58-7m4g
- github.comhttps://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/issues/372
- github.comhttps://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/commit/bab31e085f355dd73858fd3715f7ed71849656da
- github.comhttps://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/blob/fd99fe11a88531f5f3441a278f7020589f9d2cc0/flask_restx/inputs.py#L51
- pypi.orghttps://pypi.org/project/flask-restx/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-0739f45529https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5UCTFVDU3677B5OBGK4EF5NMUPJLL6SQ/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-67b7695f95https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QUD6SWZLX52AAZUHDETJ2CDMQGEPGFL3/