GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-4grg-w6v8-c28g Flask uses fallback key instead of current signing key

LOW Published 2025-05-13 Modified 2025-05-13 Official page ↗
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