PYSEC-2026-1553 Litestar X-Forwarded-For Header Spoofing Vulnerability Enables Rate Limit Evasion

While testing Litestar's RateLimitMiddleware, I discovered that rate limits can be completely bypassed by manipulating the X-Forwarded-For header. This renders IP-based rate limiting ineffective against determined attackers. The Problem Litestar's RateLimitMiddleware uses cachekeyfromrequest to...

Hacktivists claim near-total Spotify music scrape

Hacktivist group Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped almost all of Spotify’s catalog and is now seeding it via BitTorrent, effectively turning a streaming platform into a roughly 300 TB pirate “preservation archive.” On its blog, the group states: “A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape...

PT-2025-32486

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GitLab CE/EE versions 9.2 through 18.9.5 GitLab CE/EE versions 18.10 through 18.10.3 GitLab CE/EE versions 18.11 through 18.11.0 Description An issue exists where an authenticated user can cause a denial of service due to insufficient resource...

Raccoon - A High Performance Offensive Security Tool For Reconnaissance And Vulnerability Scanning

Offensive Security Tool for Reconnaissance and Information Gathering. Features DNS details DNS visual mapping using DNS dumpster WHOIS information TLS Data - supported ciphers, TLS versions, certificate details and SANs Port Scan Services and scripts scan URL fuzzing and dir/file detection...