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Bypass rate limit on profile edit page using IP rotation

Low
sonalkr132 published GHSA-c439-3pcx-3675 Jun 26, 2022

Package

bundler rubygems.org (RubyGems)

Affected versions

n/a

Patched versions

n/a

Description

Summary

We have rate limit of 100 req/10 min on profile edit page to avoid brute force of user password. It was possible to bypass this limit using IP rotator.

Impact

The attacker could brute force the user password if also have access to a compromised session. Note that this exploit does not have any impact on its own, the attacker needs to compromise the user session using an alternate method. The edit password page is only assible if the user is already loggin in.

Patches

Please check e9491b3 for details of the patch.

Severity

Low

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

No CWEs