Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCraft login URL with malicious rd parameter
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DeliveryPhish victim to click link
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ExploitVictim authenticates at trusted OpenShift domain
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Executionoauth-proxy redirects to attacker site
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ImpactHarvest credentials or tokens
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Redirect URL validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to deliver a specially crafted link (containing an attacker-controlled |
| Impact | This is a textbook open-redirect (CWE-601) in oauth-proxy, the authentication proxy sidecar used across Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4. The vendor CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N = 6.1 Medium) is internally consistent with the description: network-reachable, no authentication, but requiring the victim to click a crafted link (UI:R), with only limited confidentiality/integrity impact and a scope change because the proxy redirects the browser to an attacker-controlled external origin. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or public proof-of-concept was provided in the input, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation. Real-world risk is genuinely moderate-to-low in isolation: an open redirect does not by itself compromise the cluster or the proxy - its value is as a phishing/credential-theft force-multiplier that lends a trusted OpenShift login hostname to an attacker's malicious destination. The signals do not conflict (CVSS network vector matches the described remote link-based attack), but note the key missing signals - no EPSS, KEV, or POC data was supplied - so prioritization should treat this as a lower-tier hardening fix rather than an emergency, weighted by how exposed the cluster's oauth-proxy login endpoint is to untrusted users. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a link to a legitimate OpenShift oauth-proxy login endpoint with a malicious |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 01, 2026
Post-login redirection in OpenShift's oauth-proxy fails to validate the rd destination parameter, so a remote unauthenticated attacker who convinces a user to follow a crafted link can send that user's browser to an arbitrary external website once authentication completes (CWE-601, CVSS 6.1). Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 deployments that expose oauth-proxy login flows are affected, and exploitation depends on the victim clicking the attacker's link and authenticating through that proxy (UI:R); the resulting impact is a browser redirect rather than code execution or data compromise, with real risk arising when the victim is socially engineered into trusting the attacker-controlled landing page for phishing or credential harvesting. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, no CISA KEV listing, and no EPSS score was supplied with the source data.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch is identified in the supplied data, so the first action is to monitor Red Hat's CVE tracking page (https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-83589) and the associated Bugzilla record (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2518379) for errata and apply the OpenShift Container Platform 4 update as soon as Red Hat ships it. Until then, treat this as a mitigation-only situation: place a validating reverse proxy or ingress rule in front of oauth-proxy that rejects or normalises any rd value that is an absolute URL or points to a host outside your trusted allow-list, accepting that legitimate absolute redirect targets will break and require re-configuration; alternatively strip or rewrite the rd parameter at the edge, which has the same trade-off of disabling cross-host post-login destinations. You can also reduce exposure by restricting oauth-proxy-protected routes to trusted networks, VPN, or internal-only ingress, at the cost of reduced accessibility for legitimate remote users, and by raising user awareness that a login page redirecting off-site immediately after authentication should be treated as suspicious. Finally, monitor proxy and ingress logs for rd parameters containing external domains or scheme-relative (//host) values, which is a low-cost detection control that does not alter application behaviour.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
oauth-proxy is the authentication proxy (a reverse-proxy sidecar) Red Hat ships with OpenShift Container Platform 4 to place OpenShift OAuth authentication in front of in-cluster applications; after a successful login it redirects the browser back to the originally requested destination carried in the rd query parameter. The flaw is CWE-601 (URL Redirection to Untrusted Site / open redirect): the proxy accepts the value of rd and issues the post-authentication redirect without confirming that the target is same-origin or on an allow-list, so an attacker-controlled rd value causes the browser to land on an arbitrary external domain immediately after a legitimate-looking login. The CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N vector matches this profile - network reachable, low complexity, no attacker credentials (PR:N), user interaction required, with a scope change because the redirect crosses the trust boundary from the OpenShift origin into the attacker's site, and only limited confidentiality/integrity impact. Because the victim has just authenticated against a trusted OpenShift-branded flow, the redirect can lend credibility to follow-on phishing or credential-theft pages.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Remote unauthenticated open redirect requiring victim click (UI:R); scope change as the browser is sent to a different origin, with limited C/I impact from phishing and no availability effect.
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CVSS VectorVendor: redhat
DescriptionCVE.org
A flaw was found in oauth-proxy. The application fails to properly validate the destination redirect parameter (rd) during post-login redirection. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to follow a specially crafted link, resulting in the user being redirected to an arbitrary external website after authenticating. This open redirect can be leveraged to conduct phishing attacks or credential theft.
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