CVE-2021-20095

A flaw was found in python-babel. A path traversal vulnerability was found in how locale data files are checked and loaded within python-babel, allowing a local attacker to trick an application that uses python-babel to load a file outside of the intended locale directory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as service availability.

It is rather uncommon for applications to use Babel.Locale() with an untrusted attacker-controlled language argument. A static language abbreviation string (e.g. "en") is most commonly used instead. For this reason, this flaw has been rated as having a security impact of Moderate.

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