CVE-2021-21411
March 26, 2021
OAuth2-Proxy is an open source reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Github or other providers. The "--gitlab-group" flag for group-based authorization in the GitLab provider stopped working in the v7.0.0 release. Regardless of the flag settings, authorization wasn't restricted. Additionally, any authenticated users had whichever groups were set in "--gitlab-group" added to the new "X-Forwarded-Groups" header to the upstream application. While adding GitLab project based authorization support in #630, a bug was introduced where the user session's groups field was populated with the "--gitlab-group" config entries instead of pulling the individual user's group membership from the GitLab Userinfo endpoint. When the session groups where compared against the allowed groups for authorization, they matched improperly (since both lists were populated with the same data) so authorization was allowed. This impacts GitLab Provider users who relies on group membership for authorization restrictions. Any authenticated users in your GitLab environment can access your applications regardless of "--gitlab-group" membership restrictions. This is patched in v7.1.0. There is no workaround for the Group membership bug. But "--gitlab-project" can be set to use Project membership as the authorization checks instead of groups; it is not broken.
Affected Packages
github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/v7 (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v7.0.0 <v7.1.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v7.1.0Additional Notes
The description of this vulnerability differs from MITRE.
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Base Score:
5.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
LOW
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
LOW
Subsequent System Integrity
LOW
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
CVSS v2
Base Score:
5.5
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
EPSS
Base Score:
0.22