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Moderate

Rate Limiting Bypass in express-brute

Affected Packages Affected Versions Fixed Versions
npm:express-brute
PURL: pkg:npm/express-brute
<= 1.0.1 No known fixed version
77 Dependent packages
1,155 Dependent repositories
61,037 Downloads last month

Affected Version Ranges

All affected versions

0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.6.0, 0.7.0-beta.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1

All versions of express-brute are vulnerable to Rate Limiting Bypass. Concurrent requests may lead to race conditions that cause the package to incorrectly count requests. This may allow an attacker to bypass the rate limiting provided by the package and execute requests without limiting.

Recommendation

No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative module until a fix is made available.

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