CVE-2026-72889: critical vulnerability in Net-OAuth
Net::OAuth versions before 0.33 for Perl allow the sender to choose the signature algorithm in verify
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.8epss 0.4%
Net::OAuth versions before 0.33 for Perl allow the sender to choose the signature algorithm in verify.
verify resolves the signature method class from the signature_method parameter of the incoming message. signature_method is required on every request, so the algorithm used to check a signature is chosen by whoever sent it, and nothing lets the verifying party pin the method instead. When a message names HMAC-SHA1 or HMAC-SHA256, the key is derived from consumer_secret and token_secret rather than from the key the provider deployed.
A provider deployed on RSA-SHA1 holds only the consumer public key, and RFC 5849 does not use consumer_secret for that method, so the required parameter is filled with a placeholder. A client that names HMAC-SHA1 instead has its signature checked against that placeholder, so a guessable one is enough to forge requests for any consumer key and token.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Net-OAuthRelated CVEs — Net-OAuth
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-72887CRITICALNet::OAuth::Client versions before 0.32 for Perl allow the service provider to silently downgrade OAuth 1.0a to OAuth 1.0 in get_request_tokenEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-72888MEDIUMNet::OAuth versions before 0.32 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded caching of failed module loads in smart_requireEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-75589HIGHNet::OAuth versions before 0.33 for Perl check HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA256 and PLAINTEXT signatures with a non-constant-time comparison in verifyEPSS 0.5%
References
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5849#section-3.4.2https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5849#section-3.4.3https://github.com/vurtdev/Net-OAuth/commit/c467adf45c8d77ac4b92ad78b3eebf949252ba7f.patchhttps://github.com/vurtdev/Net-OAuth/security/advisories/GHSA-c8rm-g5cm-4pf5https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Net-OAuth-0.33/changeshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/19/2