{"id":"CVE-2024-41962","aliases":["EUVD-2024-2502","GHSA-5cf7-cxrf-mq73"],"status":"published","title":"Bostr Improper Authorization","description":"Bostr is an nostr relay aggregator proxy that acts like a regular nostr relay. bostr let everyone in even having authorized_keys being set when noscraper is set to true. 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