Redirect URL matching ignores character casing
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-601.
Summary
ORY Fosite is a security first OAuth2 & OpenID Connect framework for Go. In Fosite before version 0.34.1, the OAuth 2.0 Client's registered redirect URLs and the redirect URL provided at the OAuth2 Authorization Endpoint where compared using strings.ToLower while they should have been compared with a simple string match. This allows an attacker to register a client with allowed redirect URL https://example.com/callback. Then perform an OAuth2 flow and requesting redirect URL https://example.com/CALLBACK. Instead of an error (invalid redirect URL), the browser is redirected to https://example.com/CALLBACK with a potentially successful OAuth2 response, depending on the state of the overall OAuth2 flow (the user might still deny the request for example). This vulnerability has been patched in ORY Fosite v0.34.1.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ory | fosite | before 0.34.1 | 0.34.1 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/ory/fosite (Go) | before 0.34.1 | 0.34.1 | Patch available | GHSA-grfp-q2mm-hfp6 |
- fosite Vendorory Affected before 0.34.1 Fixed in 0.34.1 Patch available CNA
- github.com/ory/fosite (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.34.1 Fixed in 0.34.1 Patch available GHSA-grfp-q2mm-hfp6
Remediation
- Fix · CNA fosite (ory) Fixed in 0.34.1
- Fix · GHSA-grfp-q2mm-hfp6 github.com/ory/fosite (Go) Fixed in 0.34.1 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-15234
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-grfp-q2mm-hfp6
References
More ory Fosite vulnerabilities
- TI-2020-11995 Ignored storage errors on token revokation in ORY Fosite CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
- TI-2020-11994 Replay of private_key_jwt possible in ORY Fosite CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2020-12005 OAuth2 Redirect URL validity does not respect query parameters and character casing for loopback addresses CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
Sources
- CVE-2020-15234 · CVE Program
- CVE-2020-15234 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-grfp-q2mm-hfp6 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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