CVE-2026-30827

express-rate-limit is a basic rate-limiting middleware for Express. In versions starting from 8.0.0 and prior to versions 8.0.2, 8.1.1, 8.2.2, and 8.3.0, the default keyGenerator in express-rate-limit applies IPv6 subnet masking (/56 by default) to all addresses that net.isIPv6() returns true for. This includes IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses (::ffff:x.x.x.x), which Node.js returns as request.ip on dual-stack servers. Because the first 80 bits of all IPv4-mapped addresses are zero, a /56 (or any /32 to /80) subnet mask produces the same network key (::/56) for every IPv4 client. This collapses all IPv4 traffic into a single rate-limit bucket: one client exhausting the limit causes HTTP 429 for all other IPv4 clients. This issue has been patched in versions 8.0.2, 8.1.1, 8.2.2, and 8.3.0.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:express-rate-limit_project:express-rate-limit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:express-rate-limit_project:express-rate-limit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:express-rate-limit_project:express-rate-limit:8.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Information

Published : 2026-03-07 06:16

Updated : 2026-03-11 19:00


NVD link : CVE-2026-30827

Mitre link : CVE-2026-30827

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-30827


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Products Affected

express-rate-limit_project

  • express-rate-limit
CWE
CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling