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GHSA-j8h8-75h3-jg53
No affected components available
Impact
Fleet trusted client-supplied IP address headers when determining the source IP for incoming requests. This allowed authenticated and unauthenticated clients to spoof their apparent IP address and bypass per-IP rate limiting controls.
Fleet determines a client’s public IP address using HTTP headers such as:
- X-Forwarded-For
- X-Real-IP
- True-Client-IP
These headers were trusted without validation. An attacker could supply arbitrary values in these headers, causing Fleet to treat each request as originating from a different IP address.
This could allow an attacker to bypass per-IP rate limits and increase the effectiveness of brute-force or password-spraying attempts against authentication endpoints.
This issue does not allow authentication bypass, privilege escalation, data exposure, or remote code execution on its own.
Workarounds
Run Fleet behind a trusted reverse proxy or load balancer that overwrites client IP headers.
For more information
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Credits
We thank @fuzzztf for responsibly reporting this issue.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the integrity of the data.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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