CVE-2019-20479
mod_auth_openidc: Open redirect issue exists in URLs with slash and backslash
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · November 12, 2019
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
An open redirect flaw was discovered in mod_auth_openidc where it handles logout redirection. The module does not correctly validate the URL, allowing a URL with slash and backslash at the beginning to bypass the protection checks. A victim user may be tricked into visiting a trusted vulnerable web site, which would redirect him to another, possibly malicious, URL.
Statement
It is not possible to reproduce the open redirect vulnerability in the versions of mod_auth_openidc as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as a missing check makes the process crash, due to a NULL pointer dereference, instead of letting it continue with an invalid URL.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 · 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE-601 · URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')