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The pattern '/\domain.com' is not disallowed when redirecting, allowing for open redirect

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 29, 2020 in oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy (Go)

Affected versions

< 5.0.0

Patched versions

5.0.0

Description

Impact

An open redirect vulnerability has been found in oauth2_proxy. Anyone who uses oauth2_proxy may potentially be impacted.

For a context [detectify] have an in depth blog post about the potential impact of an open redirect. Particularly see the OAuth section.

tl;dr: People's authentication tokens could be silently harvested by an attacker. e.g:
facebook.com/oauth.php?clientid=123&state=abc&redirect_url=https://yourdomain.com/red.php?url%3dhttps://attacker.com/

Patches

@sauyon found the issue, and has submitted a patch.

diff --git a/oauthproxy.go b/oauthproxy.go
index 72ab580..f420df6 100644
--- a/oauthproxy.go
+++ b/oauthproxy.go
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ func (p *OAuthProxy) GetRedirect(req *http.Request) (redirect string, err error)
 // IsValidRedirect checks whether the redirect URL is whitelisted
 func (p *OAuthProxy) IsValidRedirect(redirect string) bool {
 	switch {
-	case strings.HasPrefix(redirect, "/") && !strings.HasPrefix(redirect, "//"):
+	case strings.HasPrefix(redirect, "/") && !strings.HasPrefix(redirect, "//") && !strings.HasPrefix(redirect, "/\\"):
 		return true
 	case strings.HasPrefix(redirect, "http://") || strings.HasPrefix(redirect, "https://"):
 		redirectURL, err := url.Parse(redirect)

This patch will be applied to the next release, which is scheduled for when this is publicly disclosed.

Workarounds

At this stage there is no work around.

References

@starkers starkers published to oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy Jan 29, 2020
Reviewed May 24, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 20, 2021
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

EPSS score

0.142%
(50th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-5233

GHSA ID

GHSA-qqxw-m5fj-f7gv

Source code

No known source code
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