CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe authentication rate limiter in Pterodactyl versions 1.7.0 to 1.13.0 is vulnerable due to a shared global bucket for login and two-factor authentication endpoints, allowing unauthenticated attackers to exhaust the rate limit and trigger a denial of service for all users, including administrators. This vulnerability poses a significant risk, particularly for game server administrators who rely on the platform for user access management. Organizations using affected versions should prioritize upgrading to version 1.13.0 or later to mitigate this risk.
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Original NVD Description
Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel. From 1.7.0 until 1.13.0, the authentication rate limiter defined in RouteServiceProvider::configureRateLimiting() applied a single global bucket to the login and two-factor checkpoint endpoints instead of keying by IP or account: the fall-through Limit::perMinute(10) covering POST /auth/login and POST /auth/login/checkpoint omitted ->by(), so Laravel derived a constant cache key (md5('authentication')) shared by every request. An unauthenticated attacker sending roughly ten requests per minute from a single IP, most cheaply against the checkpoint endpoint (which has no reCAPTCHA), exhausts the shared counter and causes HTTP 429 for every user attempting to log in or complete two-factor authentication, a panel-wide authentication denial of service that also locks out administrators. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.