What is CVE-2024-52796?

CVE-2024-52796 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pglombardo Passwordpusher, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-11-20.

How severe is CVE-2024-52796?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Pglombardo Passwordpusher

CVE-2024-52796

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…

EPSS: 0.001 (29.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Pglombardo Passwordpusher — versions < 1.49.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

https://github.com/pglombardo/PasswordPusher/security/advisories/GHSA-ffp2-8p2h-4m5j (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://docs.pwpush.com/docs/proxies/#trusted-proxies (x_refsource_MISC)
https://github.com/pglombardo/PasswordPusher/releases/tag/v1.49.0 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-52796?: CVE-2024-52796 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pglombardo Passwordpusher, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-11-20.
How severe is CVE-2024-52796?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.