Better Auth: Rate limiter keys IPv6 addresses individually and is bypassable via prefix rotation
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GHSA-p6v2-xcpg-h6xw | Better Auth: Rate limiter keys IPv6 addresses individually and is bypassable via prefix rotation |
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Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.295% probability within 30 days)
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| Description | Better Auth is an authentication and authorization library for TypeScript. Prior to 1.4.17 and 1.5.0-beta.9, Better Auth's HTTP rate limiter keyed each request by the exact textual IP address it received in x-forwarded-for (or the configured IP-bearing header). IPv6 clients controlling a typical /64 allocation could rotate through 2^64 distinct source addresses without exhausting the per-address counter, defeating rate limiting on /sign-in/email, /sign-up/email, /forget-password, and every other path the limiter protects. The same bug allowed a single client to vary the textual encoding of one IPv6 address (uppercase, compression, IPv4-mapped, hex-encoded IPv4-in-IPv6) and produce multiple distinct keys. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.17 and 1.5.0-beta.9. | |
| Title | Better Auth: Rate limiter keys IPv6 addresses individually and is bypassable via prefix rotation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-307 | |
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