CVE-2024-34451 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Ghost through 5.85.1 allows remote attackers to bypass an authentication rate-limit protection mechanism by using many X-Forwarded-For headers with different values. NOTE: the vendor's position is that Ghost should be installed with a reverse proxy that allows only trusted X-Forwarded-For headers.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0069.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ghost:ghost:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

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Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Ghost Subscribe	Ghost Subscribe

Tracking

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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iy0X4Vc9xXYoBxFrcW6ATo8GKPV6ivuLVzn6GgEpwqE
https://ghost.org/docs/faq/proxying-https-infinite-loops/
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00538}`	epss `{'score': 0.00583}`

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Ghost Ghost ghost
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:ghost:ghost::::::node.js::*
Vendors & Products		Ghost Ghost ghost

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-1390
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 9.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-06-16T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-20T16:51:00.522Z

Reserved: 2024-05-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-34451

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T02:51:11.454Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-16T22:15:09.130

Modified: 2025-06-20T18:06:23.123

Link: CVE-2024-34451

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-1390

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