CVE-2024-52289

authentik has an insecure default configuration for OAuth2 Redirect URIs

State
Published
Severity
7.9 High
Published
Nov 21, 2024
Updated
Sep 23, 2025
Reserved
Nov 6, 2024

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Description

authentik is an open-source identity provider. Redirect URIs in the OAuth2 provider in authentik are checked by RegEx comparison. When no Redirect URIs are configured in a provider, authentik will automatically use the first redirect_uri value received as an allowed redirect URI, without escaping characters that have a special meaning in RegEx. Similarly, the documentation did not take this into consideration either. Given a provider with the Redirect URIs set to https://foo.example.com, an attacker can register a domain fooaexample.com, and it will correctly pass validation. authentik 2024.8.5 and 2024.10.3 fix this issue. As a workaround, When configuring OAuth2 providers, make sure to escape any wildcard characters that are not intended to function as a wildcard, for example replace `.` with `\.`.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.9 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-185 Incorrect Regular Expression

Affected Products

ProductVersions
authentikgoauthentik
  • < 2024.8.5Affected
  • >= 2024.10.0-rc1, < 2024.10.3Affected

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