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High · 7.9 CVE-2024-52289 EUVD-2024-45991

authentik has an insecure default configuration for OAuth2 Redirect URIs

Published Nov 21, 2024 · Updated Sep 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

authentik is an open-source identity provider. Redirect URIs in the OAuth2 provider in authentik are checked by RegEx comparison.
When no Redirect URIs are configured in a provider, authentik will automatically use the first redirect_uri value received as an allowed redirect URI, without escaping characters that have a special meaning in RegEx. Similarly, the documentation did not take this into consideration either. Given a provider with the Redirect URIs set to https://foo.example.com, an attacker can register a domain fooaexample.com, and it will correctly pass validation. authentik 2024.8.5 and 2024.10.3 fix this issue. As a workaround, When configuring OAuth2 providers, make sure to escape any wildcard characters that are not intended to function as a wildcard, for example replace `.` with `\.`.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
goauthentik authentik < 2024.8.5, >= 2024.10.0-rc1, < 2024.10.3 —

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