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CVE-2024-34451

ghost ghost — Ghost through 5.85.1 allows remote attackers to bypass an authentication rate-limit protection mechanism by using many X-Forwarded-For he…

EPSS 0.8%public exploitCVSS 9.1
critical.is priorityof 100
48
CVSS 9.1 (ADP)9.1 / 10 × 3027.3Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 55.5.555 × 2011.1Exploit: SSVC poc+1010.0SSVC exploitation: poc+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

Ghost through 5.85.1 allows remote attackers to bypass an authentication rate-limit protection mechanism by using many X-Forwarded-For headers with different values. NOTE: the vendor's position is that Ghost should be installed with a reverse proxy that allows only trusted X-Forwarded-For headers.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
n/an/a–CNA
ghost≤ 5.85.1–CISA-ADP

Scores by source

CISA ADP9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

References

refghost.org/docs/faq/proxying-https-infinite-loopsrefgithub.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releasesrefdocs.google.com/document/d/1iy0X4Vc9xXYoBxFrcW6ATo8GKPV6ivuLVzn6GgEpwqE