CVE-2025-68481
December 19, 2025
FastAPI Users allows users to quickly add a registration and authentication system to their FastAPI project. Prior to version 15.0.2, the OAuth login state tokens are completely stateless and carry no per-request entropy or any data that could link them to the session that initiated the OAuth flow. "generate_state_token()" is always called with an empty "state_data" dict, so the resulting JWT only contains the fixed audience claim plus an expiration timestamp. On callback, the library merely checks that the JWT verifies under "state_secret" and is unexpired; there is no attempt to match the state value to the browser that initiated the OAuth request, no correlation cookie, and no server-side cache. Any attacker can hit "/authorize", capture the server-generated state, finish the upstream OAuth flow with their own provider account, and then trick a victim into loading ".../callback?code=<attacker_code>&state=<attacker_state>". Because the state JWT is valid for any client for ~1 hour, the victim’s browser will complete the flow. This leads to login CSRF. Depending on the app’s logic, the login CSRF can lead to an account takeover of the victim account or to the victim user getting logged in to the attacker's account. Version 15.0.2 contains a patch for the issue.
Affected Packages
fastapi-users (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=8.1.0 <15.0.2Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 15.0.2https://github.com/fastapi-users/fastapi-users.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.1.0 <v15.0.2Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v15.0.2fastapi-users (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.0.2 <15.0.2Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 15.0.2Additional Notes
The description of this vulnerability differs from MITRE.
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
PASSIVE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
LOW
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
EPSS
Base Score:
0.03