PairDrop through 1.11.2 contains an IP spoofing vulnerability in Peer._setIP that allows remote attackers to join other networks' discovery rooms by supplying a forged cf-connecting-ip header. Attackers who know a victim's public IP can appear as a local device on self-hosted instances not behind Cloudflare to send or receive files.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 2
- StatusReceived → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-16 19:18
- First seenCVSS 2.3NVD modified 2026-10-13 12:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 5
- https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop
- https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop/blob/4862ba3067be1a0f2e0d1e94861dc9200b5bfeea/server/peer.js#L44-L54
- https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop/blob/4862ba3067be1a0f2e0d1e94861dc9200b5bfeea/server/ws-server.js#L312-L314
- https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop/issues/510
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pairdrop-through-1.11.2-ip-spoofing-via-cf-connecting-ip-header