simonw/datasette · Security
Open redirect endpoint in Datasette
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-w832-gg5g-x44m
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-64481
- Severity
- low
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 2.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Description
Impact
Deployed instances of Datasette prior to 0.65.2 and 1.0a21 include an open redirect vulnerability.
Hits to the path //example.com/foo/bar/ (the trailing slash is required) will redirect the user to https://example.com/foo/bar.
Patches
This problem has been patched in both Datasette 0.65.2 and 1.0a21.
Workarounds
If Datasette is running behind a proxy that proxy could be configured to replace // with / in incoming request URLs.
CWEs
- CWE-601 · URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
References
- https://github.com/simonw/datasette/security/advisories/GHSA-w832-gg5g-x44m ↗
- https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2429 ↗
- https://github.com/simonw/datasette/commit/f257ca6edb64848c3b04b54d41e347c54fe57c05 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64481 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/datasette/PYSEC-2025-73.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w832-gg5g-x44m ↗