CVE-2026-118669

OAuthLib: Token grants can use attacker-supplied client_id for authorization after authenticating a different client

State
Published
Severity
8.4 High
Published
Oct 28, 2026
Updated
Oct 28, 2026
Reserved
Oct 28, 2026

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Description

OAuthLib is an implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic for Python 3.6+. Prior to 4.0.0, the client_credentials and Resource Owner Password Credentials token grant handlers can authenticate request.client as one confidential client while retaining an attacker-supplied request.client_id for validate_grant_type and validate_scopes. A lower-privilege authenticated client can therefore cause grant and scope authorization to use another client's identity when an application validator relies on the documented client_id argument, potentially issuing tokens with unauthorized grants or scopes. Validators that authorize exclusively from request.client may not be affected. This issue is fixed in version 4.0.0.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
oauthliboauthlib
  • < 4.0.0Affected

References

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