Probo has an open redirect bypass via path normalization
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-601.
Summary
Probo is a self-hostable governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform built for engineering and security teams. Probo's `saferedirect` package validates redirect URLs used across authentication flows (OIDC, SAML, session transfer, OAuth connectors, and trust-center magic links). Prior to version 0.19.3.1, the validator only inspected the second character of relative paths, so a URL like `/../\evil.com` passed validation because the second character is `.`. Go's `http.Redirect` normalizes this path to `/\evil.com` before setting the `Location` header. Browsers can interpret the backslash as a host separator and redirect the user to an external domain (`https://evil.com`), bypassing the intended same-origin restriction. This enables open-redirect phishing: an attacker can craft a `continue` parameter (or embed a malicious URL in a session-transfer token) that appears to originate from a trusted Probo domain but redirects victims elsewhere. This is fixed in `go.probo.inc/probo` 0.193.1 by normalizing relative paths with `path.Clean` before validation, rejecting backslashes (including percent-encoded `%5c`) anywhere in the path, and re-checking the normalized result for protocol-relative and backslash prefixes. Self-hosted deployments should upgrade to probod v0.194.1 or later. SaaS deployments on getprobo.com are patched. No practical workaround is available for self-hosted installations.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| getprobo | probo | before 0.193.1 | 0.193.1 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | go.probo.inc/probo (Go) | before 0.204.0 | 0.204.0 | Patch available | GHSA-x7qq-m748-8p2c |
- probo Vendorgetprobo Affected before 0.193.1 Fixed in 0.193.1 Patch available CNA
- go.probo.inc/probo (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.204.0 Fixed in 0.204.0 Patch available GHSA-x7qq-m748-8p2c
Remediation
- Fix · CNA probo (getprobo) Fixed in 0.193.1
- Fix · GHSA-x7qq-m748-8p2c go.probo.inc/probo (Go) Fixed in 0.204.0 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-49820
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x7qq-m748-8p2c
References
Sources
- CVE-2026-49820 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-49820 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-x7qq-m748-8p2c · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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