CVE-2025-24369 json
Anubis has a bot protection bypass when a sophisticated attacker asks to pass a challenge of difficulty 0
published 2025-01-27 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-56w8-8ppj-2p4f , GO-2025-3424 , EUVD-2025-3683
- cvss
- 2.3
- version 4.0, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.4%
- EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
Anubis is a tool that allows administrators to protect bots against AI scrapers through bot-checking heuristics and a proof-of-work challenge to discourage scraping from multiple IP addresses. Anubis allows attackers to bypass the bot protection by requesting a challenge, formulates any nonce (such as 42069), and then passes the challenge with difficulty zero. Commit e09d0226a628f04b1d80fd83bee777894a45cd02 fixes this behavior by not using a client-specified difficulty value.
Patch / fix
- govulncheck-vulndb SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20250207T224745-150000.1.32.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:0429-1
- anubis openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.24.0-1.1
- govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20250130T185858-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15847-1openSUSE-SU-2025:14728-1
- anubis Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 1.15.2-r0
alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-24369
Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- github.com/Xe/x@7bd7b20 commit
- github.com/Xe/x@e09d022 commit
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- total
- Assessed
- 21 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 4.0 | 2.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| CNA | 4.0 | 2.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/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 |
Affected packages
| ecosystem | package | affected | fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/Xe/x | all versions |
no fix listed |
Affected products
- Xe x
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-807 Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision
References
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-24369
- NVD CVE-2025-24369
- OSV GO-2025-3424
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