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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2024-52796 EUVD-2024-3353GHSA-ffp2-8p2h-4m5j

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

Published Nov 20, 2024 · Updated Nov 20, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pglombardo PasswordPusher < 1.49.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems pwpush < 1.49.0 1.49.0 GHSA-ffp2-8p2h-4m5j

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