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CVE-2026-72816

Updated on 14 Aug 2026

Severity

6.9 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
6.9
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

go-chi/chi through 5.2.1 contains an IP spoofing vulnerability in the RealIP middleware (middleware/realip.go). The realIP() function reads client-controlled headers (True-Client-IP, X-Real-IP, and X-Forwarded-For) and overwrites r.RemoteAddr without verifying that the request originated from a trusted proxy. Attackers can supply arbitrary IP addresses in these headers to bypass IP-based access controls, evade rate limiting and geo-IP restrictions, and pollute audit logs. Fixed in 5.3.0.

Details

Affected product:
Grafana , go-chi/chi , grafana/thema , influxdata/influxdb-client-go , oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen
Affected packages:
github.com/go-chi/chi @ 5.0.7 (+4 more)