GHSA-hhpq-7wg4-36jmMedium
CakePHP Authentication: Open redirect weakness via backslash bypass
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
The getLoginRedirect() method contains a weakness to backslash bypasses allowing redirect targets with attacker controlled hostnames.
Patches
2.11.1, 3.3.6 and 4.1.1 contain a fix for this issue.
Workarounds
If you are unable to upgrade, you should consider adding application validation to the redirect query string parameter to mitigate this vulnerability.
🎯 Affected products3
- composer/cakephp/authentication:>= 4.0.0, < 4.1.1
- composer/cakephp/authentication:>= 3.0.0, < 3.3.6
- composer/cakephp/authentication:< 2.11.1
🔗 References (12)
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-hhpq-7wg4-36jm
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55590
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/pull/795
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/pull/796
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/pull/799
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/commit/1c1e29c7e8129cfbcae74558316ecd3ea50a8273
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/commit/df28ea4e712f1e5bd0e42be4a3c5c750ca50764d
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/commit/ee24bd48b9c3ef693dc9965de8f0cc8020a7052c
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/releases/tag/2.11.1
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/releases/tag/3.3.6
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/releases/tag/4.1.1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhpq-7wg4-36jm