CVE-2023-3173 — Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in GitHub repository f

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in GitHub repository froxlor/froxlor prior to 2.0.20.

01What is this vulnerability?

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in GitHub repository froxlor/froxlor prior to 2.0.20.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
froxlor	froxlor/froxlor	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-06-09T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-01-06T17:11:57.332Z

09References

• huntr.dev — https://huntr.dev/bounties/4d715f76-950d-4251-8139-3dffea798f14
• github.com — https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/commit/464216072456efb35b4541c58e7016463dfbd9…