CVE-2026-45364
Better Auth is an authentication and authorization library for TypeScript. Prior to 1.4.17 and 1.5.0-beta.9, Better Auth's HTTP rate limiter keyed each request by the exact textual IP address it received in x-forwarded-for (or the configured IP-bearing header). IPv6 clients controlling a typical /64 allocation could rotate through 2^64 distinct source addresses without exhausting the per-address counter, defeating rate limiting on /sign-in/email, /sign-up/email, /forget-password, and every other path the limiter protects. The same bug allowed a single client to vary the textual encoding of one IPv6 address (uppercase, compression, IPv4-mapped, hex-encoded IPv4-in-IPv6) and produce multiple distinct keys. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.17 and 1.5.0-beta.9.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Puntuación base: 7.3
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.50%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 41
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access90 % - Impacto principal
T1499.004Application or System Exploitationimpact85 % - Impacto secundario
T1110.004Credential Stuffingcredential access80 %
Red sin privilegios (AV:N/PR:N): T1190. Evasión de rate limiter permite DoS por agotamiento (C:L/A:L) e intentos de fuerza bruta masivos contra autenticación sin límite.
Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.
🛡️ Mitigaciones ATT&CK que cubren estas técnicas
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.
CWE
- CWE-307
Referencias
- https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/commit/43e719bcc0c223c7079fa0c611a9cf7ea1188254
- https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/commit/57af0f7b910dcf7b1a5c0615d10b9bd56bb69bef
- https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/pull/7470
- https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/pull/7509
- https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/security/advisories/GHSA-p6v2-xcpg-h6xw
JSON original (NVD)
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