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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 …

Published:

27 May 2026 at 22:00:00

Alert date:

28 May 2026 at 23:02:47

Source:

nvd.nist.gov

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Web Technologies, Identity & Access

Better Auth authentication library for TypeScript contains a vulnerability in its HTTP rate limiter that allows IPv6 clients to bypass rate limiting protections. The flaw occurs because the rate limiter keys requests by exact textual IP addresses from x-forwarded-for headers. Attackers with IPv6 /64 allocations can rotate through 2^64 distinct addresses to defeat rate limiting on authentication endpoints including sign-in, sign-up, and password reset paths. The vulnerability also allows encoding variations of the same IPv6 address to create multiple distinct keys. This affects all rate-limited endpoints and is fixed in versions 1.4.17 and 1.5.0-beta.9.

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