critical · 9.8 Patched

Flask-Reuploaded vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Server-Side Template Injection

CVE-2026-27641 · GHSA-65mp-fq8v-56jr · PYSEC-2026-341 · published 25 Feb 2026

How serious is it

  • Severity: critical, CVSS score 9.8 out of 10.
  • No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
  • Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  • No public exploit in Exploit-DB.

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Who is affected

  • flask-reuploaded (PyPI) < 1.5.0

How to check

  1. Run pip show flask-reuploaded in your project to see the installed version, including copies pulled in by other packages.
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How to fix

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  1. Upgrade flask-reuploaded to 1.5.0 or later, commit the lockfile and redeploy.
  2. If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.

The advisory

### Impact A critical path traversal and extension bypass vulnerability in Flask-Reuploaded allows remote attackers to achieve arbitrary file write and remote code execution through Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI). ### Patches Flask-Reuploaded has been patched in version 1.5.0 ### Workarounds 1. **Do not pass user input to the `name` parameter** 2. Use auto-generated filenames only 3. Implement strict input validation if `name` must be used ```python from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename import os # Sanitize user input before passing to save() safe_name = secure_filename(request.form.get('custom_name')) # Remove path separators safe_name = os.path.basename(safe_name) # Validate extension matches policy if not photos.extension_allowed(photos.get_extension(safe_name)): abort(400) filename = photos.save(file, name=safe_name) ``` ### Resources The fix is documented in the pull request, see https://github.com/jugmac00/flask-reuploaded/pull/180. A proper write-up was created by the reporter of the vulnerability, Jaron Cabral (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaron-cabral-751994357/), but is not yet available as of time of this publication.

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References

Merged from GitHub Advisory Database, OSV. Last updated 28 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON