Bug 2558812

Summary: CVE-2026-114437 caddy: chi: client IP spoofing via unverified direct connection in ClientIPFromXFF middleware [epel-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Ronit Dey <rdey>
Component: caddyAssignee: Carl George 🤠 <carlwgeorge>
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Description Ronit Dey 2026-10-22 10:57:17 UTC 
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In the Golang Chi web framework, the ClientIPFromXFF middleware skips any X-Forwarded-For entry in a configured trusted CIDR but never verifies that the direct TCP peer in http.Request.RemoteAddr belongs to that CIDR. A client that can reach the Go server directly can therefore append a trusted-looking proxy address and choose the client IP returned by middleware.GetClientIP.

This issue affects chi before 5.4.0.