express-brute@0.1.2 vulnerabilities

A brute-force protection middleware for express routes that rate limits incoming requests

Direct Vulnerabilities

Known vulnerabilities in the express-brute package. This does not include vulnerabilities belonging to this package’s dependencies.

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Rate Limiting Bypass

express-brute is a brute-force protection middleware for express routes that rate-limits incoming requests, increasing the delay with each request in a fibonacci-like sequence.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Rate Limiting Bypass due to incorrectly counting the number of requests sent, this allows an attacker to bypass the rate-limiting mechanism.

How to fix Rate Limiting Bypass?

There is no fixed version for express-brute.

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