CVE-2020-15233

MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.26%

OAuth2 Redirect URL validity does not respect query parameters and character casing for loopback addresses

Published: 5/24/2021Modified: 3/13/2026

Description

### Impact [fosite#400](https://github.com/ory/fosite/pull/400) (released as v0.30.2) introduced a new feature for handling redirect URLs pointing to loopback interfaces ([rfc8252#section-7.3](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8252#section-7.3)). As part of that change new behavior was introduced which failed to respect the redirect URL's (only for loopback interfaces!) query parameters 1. Registering a client with allowed redirect URL `http://127.0.0.1/callback` 2. Performing OAuth2 flow and requesting redirect URL `http://127.0.0.1/callback?bar=foo` 3. Instead of an error, the browser is redirected to `http://127.0.0.1/callback?bar=foo` with a potentially successful OAuth2 response. as well as the host parameter (as long as the host is a loopback interface): 1. Registering a client with allowed redirect URL `https://example.com/callback` 2. Performing OAuth2 flow and requesting redirect URL `http://127.0.0.1/callback` 3. Instead of an error, the browser is redirected to `http://127.0.0.1/callback` with a potentially successful OAuth2 response. These bugs are only applicable in scenarios where the attacker has control over the loopback interface (`localhost`, `127.0.0.1`, `[::1]`) where the browser performing the OAuth2 flow is running.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM6.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

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