Openshift/oauth-proxy: openshift/oauth-proxy: underscore header smuggling enables identity impersonation on wsgi/php upstreams
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.5epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 77% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in openshift/oauth-proxy. The proxy sets authenticated identity headers using only dash-variant keys (X-Forwarded-User) but does not strip underscore-variant keys (X_Forwarded_User) from incoming requests. WSGI and PHP frameworks normalize both variants to the same variable, allowing an authenticated low-privilege user to smuggle a forged identity that may override the legitimate authenticated identity in the upstream application.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50681https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50758https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:51007https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:51013https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:51022https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:51025https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:51038https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54188https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54206https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56912https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60023https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-49332