CVE-2024-52796 — Password Pusher's rate limiter can be bypassed by forging proxy headers
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 li…
Published: 2024-11-20 · CVSS: 5.3 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7