CVE-2023-38507

Strapi Improper Rate Limiting vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Sep 15, 2023
Updated: Sep 25, 2024
Reserved: Jul 18, 2023

Description

Strapi is the an open-source headless content management system. Prior to version 4.12.1, there is a rate limit on the login function of Strapi's admin screen, but it is possible to circumvent it. Therefore, the possibility of unauthorized login by login brute force attack increases. Version 4.12.1 has a fix for this issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
strapistrapi	< 4.12.1Affected

References

https://github.com/strapi/strapi/security/advisories/GHSA-24q2-59hm-rh9r
https://github.com/strapi/strapi/blob/32d68f1f5677ed9a9a505b718c182c0a3f885426/packages/core/admin/server/middlewares/rateLimit.js#L31
https://github.com/strapi/strapi/releases/tag/v4.12.1

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