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GHSA-2MR2-J2WM-V93X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-01 18:30 – Updated: 2026-09-01 18:30

Details

A flaw was found in openshift/oauth-server. The OAuth login and error page endpoints pass the unauthenticated Accept-Language header to golang.org/x/text/language.ParseAcceptLanguage() without input validation. A bypass of the CVE-2022-32149 mitigation exists: the upstream guard counts only '-' characters but the internal BCP 47 scanner aliases '' to '-' after the guard check. An unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted Accept-Language header using '' separators to trigger quadratic-time parsing, consuming excessive CPU and denying authentication to all cluster users.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-49329 (GCVE-0-2026-49329)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 15:30 – Updated: 2026-09-18 13:32

Title

Openshift/oauth-server: openshift/oauth-server: quadratic-time dos via accept-language header underscore bypass on unauthenticated login endpoints

Summary

A flaw was found in openshift/oauth-server. The OAuth login and error page endpoints pass the unauthenticated Accept-Language header to golang.org/x/text/language.ParseAcceptLanguage() without input validation. A bypass of the CVE-2022-32149 mitigation exists: the upstream guard counts only '-' characters but the internal BCP 47 scanner aliases '_' to '-' after the guard check. An unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted Accept-Language header using '_' separators to trigger quadratic-time parsing, consuming excessive CPU and denying authentication to all cluster users.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-01 17:05 UTC

CWE

CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-49329	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2483248	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4	cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4

Date Public

2026-08-31 20:00

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank tonghuaroot for reporting this issue.

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