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GHSA-j8h8-75h3-jg53

Fleet has a rate limiting bypass via untrusted client IP headers

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2026-24000

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Go github.com/fleetdm/fleet/v4 < 4.80.1 4.80.1

Details

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### 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 If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: Email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Join #fleet in [osquery Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/osquery/shared_invite/zt-h29zm0gk-s2DBtGUTW4CFel0f0IjTEw) ### Credits We thank @fuzzztf for responsibly reporting this issue.

References

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