Riskcovery

CVE-2024-21494

State
Published
Severity
5.4 Medium
Published
Feb 17, 2024
Updated
Apr 24, 2025
Reserved
Dec 22, 2023

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Description

All versions of the package github.com/greenpau/caddy-security are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Spoofing via the X-Forwarded-For header due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can spoof an IP address used in the user identity module (/whoami API endpoint). This could lead to unauthorized access if the system trusts this spoofed IP address.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Psnyk

Weaknesses

  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
github.com/greenpau/caddy-securityn/a
  • all versionsAffected

References

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