GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-4grg-w6v8-c28g Flask uses fallback key instead of current signing key
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-47278
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- flask
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-683
- Reviewed
- 2025-05-13
Affected packages
• PyPI flask: >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.1 → fixed in 3.1.1
Description
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` are 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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-47278 Flask is a web server gateway interface (WSGI) web application framework. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-683 Function Call With Incorrect Order of Arguments weakness
References
- https://github.com/pallets/flask/security/advisories/GHSA-4grg-w6v8-c28g web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47278 advisory
- https://github.com/pallets/flask/commit/73d6504063bfa00666a92b07a28aaf906c532f09 web
- https://github.com/pallets/flask package
- https://github.com/pallets/flask/releases/tag/3.1.1 web