CVE-2024-52796
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-20 16:15
Modified
2024-11-20 16:48
Summary
Password Pusher's rate limiter can be bypassed by forging proxy headers
Impacted products
pglombardoPasswordPusher
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