Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in pretix before 2023.7.1. Incorrect parsing of configuration files causes the application to trust unchecked X-Forwarded-For headers even though it has not been configured to do so. This can lead to IP address spoofing by users of the application.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-44463
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 01:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in pretix before 2023.7.1. Incorrect parsing of configuration files causes the application to trust unchecked X-Forwarded-For headers even though it has not been configured to do so. This can lead to IP address spoofing by users of the application.
osv:CVE-2023-44463
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:32.313115473Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/pretix/pretix/compare/v2023.7.0...v2023.7.1",
"https://github.com/pretix/pretix/tags",
"https://pretix.eu/about/en/ticketing",
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"https://github.com/pretix/pretix/commit/ccdce2ccb8207b82501af3c03f50abc0f819b469",
"https://pretix.eu/about/en/blog/20230911-release-2023-7-1/"
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