GHSA-h395-qcrw-5vmq

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    GHSA-h395-qcrw-5vmq

    Published: 23 Jun 2021Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests in github.com/gin-gonic/gin

    Details: When gin is exposed directly to the internet, a client's IP can be spoofed by setting the X-Forwarded-For header. This affects all versions of package github.com/gin-gonic/gin under 1.7.7.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28483, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/issues/2232, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/issues/2473, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/issues/2862, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/pull/2474, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/pull/2474#23issuecomment-729696437, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/pull/2632, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/pull/2675, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/pull/2844, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/pull/2844/files#diff-e6ce689a25eaef174c2dd51fe869fabbe04a6c6afbd416b23eda138c82e761baR1432, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/commit/03e5e05ae089bc989f1ca41841f05504d29e3fd9, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/commit/5929d521715610c9dd14898ebbe1d188d5de8937, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/commit/bfc8ca285eb46dad60e037d57c545cd260636711, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMGINGONICGIN-1041736, https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2021-0052, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/releases/tag/v1.7.7, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/releases/tag/v1.7.0, https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/gin-gonic/gin

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/gin-gonic/gin

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.7.7

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    GHSA-h395-qcrw-5vmq | CVE-DB