CVE-2026-77560

Tinyauth: forward-auth per-app ACL is matched case-sensitively against the (case-insensitive) hostname, letting an authenticated user reach apps they are not on the allowlist for

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Sep 21, 2026
Updated
Sep 21, 2026
Reserved
Aug 20, 2026

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Description

Tinyauth is an authentication and authorization server. Prior to 5.1.2, Tinyauth compares forwarded hostnames case-sensitively while reverse proxies route equivalent hostnames case-insensitively, allowing an authenticated low-privilege user to bypass per-app access controls with a differently cased hostname. The lookup in internal/service/access_controls_service.go through lookupStaticACLs and GetAccessControls, and the Docker-label fallback in internal/service/docker_service.go through GetLabels, can miss the configured app and return an empty access-control object. internal/controller/proxy_controller.go proxyHandler then treats the empty user, group, OAuth, LDAP, and IP restrictions as permissive and returns an authenticated result for an app that should exclude the user. Unauthenticated users remain subject to login, and global login-time allowlists are not bypassed. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
  • CWE-636 Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

ProductVersions
tinyauthtinyauthapp
  • < 5.1.2Affected

References

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