01 Record
CVE-2025-59152
X-Forwarded-For Header Spoofing Bypasses Litestar Rate Limiting
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score7.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
02 Description
X-Forwarded-For Header Spoofing Bypasses Litestar Rate Limiting
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Public exploit code exists. CISA's assessment records a public proof of concept. That is not a report of exploitation in the wild.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationpocPublic proof-of-concept exploit code exists. Not a report of exploitation in the wild.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.48% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 41.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Deferred. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-19.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2025-10-06 15:23Z1 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-10-06 15:35Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2025-09-09
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-807Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security DecisionBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 39c18bc8ff52e198208d0f4625bf6e146afdf2110a20de330a1f9d603ef0be1a
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/security/advisories/GHSA-hm36-ffrh-c77c
- github.comhttps://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/commit/42a89e043e50b515f8548a93954fe143f63cf9fb
- github.comhttps://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/blob/26f20ac6c52de2b4bf81161f7560c8bb4af6f382/litestar/middleware/rate_limit.py#L127