Comment flooding via non-atomic rate-limit check
Published Aug 19, 2024 · Updated Aug 21, 2024
Race condition in Typecho 1.3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass comment rate limits through concurrent requests. Feedback.php queries the latest comment and later inserts the new comment without an atomic lock or transaction, so parallel requests pass the same interval check. Anonymous commenting, enabled comments, and interval protection must be reachable; successful abuse floods a post with comments.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in Typecho 1.3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass comment rate limits through concurrent requests. Feedback.php queries the latest comment and later inserts the new comment without an atomic lock or transaction, so parallel requests pass the same interval check. Anonymous commenting, enabled comments, and interval protection must be reachable; successful abuse floods a post with comments.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-35539
- Published
- Aug 19, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 21, 2024
- Vendor
- Typecho
- Product
- Typecho
- Classifications
- CWE-290
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 19, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 21, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=1.3.0
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Public exploit references
- CVE-2024-35539 Go proof of conceptfunctional · demonstrated
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