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

High
starkers published GHSA-qqxw-m5fj-f7gv Jan 29, 2020

Package

No package listed

Affected versions

All

Patched versions

None

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

Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2020-5233

Weaknesses

No CWEs