CVE-2023-29005

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.30%

Flask-AppBuilder Has No Rate Limiting on Login AUTH DB

Published: 4/10/2023Modified: 3/7/2025

Description

### Impact Lack of rate limiting will allow an attacker to brute-force user credentials. ### Patches Ability to enable rate limiting on Flask-AppBuilder >= 4.3.0. Use `AUTH_RATE_LIMITED = True` and `RATELIMIT_ENABLED = True` set the limit itself by using `AUTH_RATE_LIMIT`. Will apply only to database authentication. ### Workarounds Implement rate limiting using a reverse proxy or other strategies.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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