CVE-2025-55736 (GCVE-0-2025-55736)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 19:04 – Updated: 2025-08-19 19:29
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Summary
flaskBlog is a blog app built with Flask. In 2.8.0 and earlier, an arbitrary user can change his role to "admin", giving its relative privileges (e.g. delete users, posts, comments etc.). The problem is in the routes/adminPanelUsers file.
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-425 - Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')
  • CWE-807 - Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
DogukanUrker FlaskBlog Affected: <= 2.8.0
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