2025-12-26 23:46CVE-2025-68148GitHub_M
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-770

FreshRSS globally denies access to feed via proxy modifying to 429 Retry-After

FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. From version 1.27.0 to before 1.28.0, An attacker could globally deny access to feeds via proxy modifying to 429 Retry-After for a large list of feeds on given instance, making it unusable for majority of users. This issue has been patched in version 1.28.0.

Problem type

Affected products

FreshRSS

FreshRSS

>= 1.27.0, < 1.28.0 - AFFECTED

References

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