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1 vulnerability by express-rate-limit
CVE-2026-30827 (GCVE-0-2026-30827)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-07 05:19 – Updated: 2026-03-09 20:44
VLAI?
Title
express-rate-limit: IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses bypass per-client rate limiting (all IPv4 clients share one bucket on dual-stack servers)
Summary
express-rate-limit is a basic rate-limiting middleware for Express. In versions starting from 8.0.0 and prior to versions 8.0.2, 8.1.1, 8.2.2, and 8.3.0, the default keyGenerator in express-rate-limit applies IPv6 subnet masking (/56 by default) to all addresses that net.isIPv6() returns true for. This includes IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses (::ffff:x.x.x.x), which Node.js returns as request.ip on dual-stack servers. Because the first 80 bits of all IPv4-mapped addresses are zero, a /56 (or any /32 to /80) subnet mask produces the same network key (::/56) for every IPv4 client. This collapses all IPv4 traffic into a single rate-limit bucket: one client exhausting the limit causes HTTP 429 for all other IPv4 clients. This issue has been patched in versions 8.0.2, 8.1.1, 8.2.2, and 8.3.0.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| express-rate-limit | express-rate-limit |
Affected:
>= 8.0.0, < 8.0.2
Affected: >= 8.1.0, < 8.1.1 Affected: >= 8.2.0, < 8.2.2 |
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