Medium
Password Pusher's rate limiter can be bypassed by forging proxy headers
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-52796
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 19:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Password Pusher's rate limiter can be bypassed by forging proxy headers
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 20 Nov 2024, 16:15 UTC
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.
osv:CVE-2024-52796
Complete source record
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