CVE-2024-52796CWE-770

Password Pusher's rate limiter can be bypassed by forging proxy headers

Medium · published November 20, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Password Pusher, an open source application to communicate sensitive information over the web, comes with a configurable rate limiter. In versions prior to v1.49.0, the rate limiter could be bypassed by forging proxy headers allowing bad actors to send unlimited traffic to the site potentially causing a denial of service. In v1.49.0, a fix was implemented to only authorize proxies on local IPs which resolves this issue. As a workaround, one may add rules to one's proxy and/or firewall to not accept external proxy headers such as `X-Forwarded-*` from clients.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00544 · 45.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2024-11-20T16:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 NOV 16:15Z
    Password Pusher's rate limiter can be bypassed by forging proxy headers
    cvelistv5