CVE-2026-76835
OAuth2 Proxy 7.15.2 through 7.15.4 Authentication Bypass via X-Forwarded-Uri Under the Default Trusted Proxy Set
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.3 Critical
- Published
- Aug 24, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 19, 2026
Description
OAuth2 Proxy honours a client-supplied X-Forwarded-Uri header when deciding whether a request may skip authentication, because the guard added for CVE-2026-40575 is inert in the default reverse-proxy configuration. GetRequestURI in pkg/requests/util/util.go prefers that header over the real request URI whenever CanTrustForwardedHeaders returns true, and isAllowedPath in oauthproxy.go matches the skip_auth_routes and skip_auth_regex allow list against the resulting path. CanTrustForwardedHeaders in pkg/apis/middleware/scope.go grants that trust when the caller's address is in the trusted proxy set, and buildTrustedProxyNetSet falls back to defaultTrustedProxyIPs, which is 0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0, whenever reverse proxy mode is enabled without trusted_proxy_ip configured. Every client is therefore treated as a trusted proxy. An unauthenticated attacker can request a protected upstream path while setting X-Forwarded-Uri to a value matching an allow-listed route, so the skip-auth decision is made against the spoofed value while the upstream receives the protected path unchanged.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 9.3 Critical | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 9.1 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
oauth2-proxyoauth2-proxy |
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References
- https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxyproduct
- https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/issues/3506issue-tracking
- https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/blob/v7.15.4/pkg/apis/middleware/scope.gotechnical-description
- GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-7x63-xv5r-3p2x)vendor-advisory
- VulnCheck Advisory: OAuth2 Proxy 7.15.2 through 7.15.4 Authentication Bypass via X-Forwarded-Uri Under the Default Trusted Proxy Setthird-party-advisory
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