CVE-2024-52796

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.

Reserved 2024-11-15 | Published 2024-11-20 | Updated 2024-11-20 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

< 1.49.0
affected

References

github.com/...Pusher/security/advisories/GHSA-ffp2-8p2h-4m5j

docs.pwpush.com/docs/proxies/

github.com/pglombardo/PasswordPusher/releases/tag/v1.49.0

cve.org (CVE-2024-52796)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-52796)

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