GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-7qx6-f23w-3w7f Unauthenticated Open Redirect, Arbitrary HTTP Response Header Injection, Missing CSRF, and Invisible-Mode Bypass in goshs `/?redirect` endpoint
LOW
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- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/patrickhener/goshs, github.com/patrickhener/goshs/v2
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-601
- Reviewed
- 2026-04-14
Affected packages
• Go github.com/patrickhener/goshs: <= 1.1.4 (no fix yet)
• Go github.com/patrickhener/goshs/v2: <= 2.0.0-beta.6 (no fix yet)
Description
Summary
The `GET /?redirect` endpoint in `goshs` v2.0.0-beta.6 performs an HTTP redirect to any attacker-supplied `url=` value and writes any attacker-supplied `header=Name: Value` pair into the response, without scheme/host validation, without a header-name allow-list, without authentication in the default deployment, and without the `checkCSRF()` guard that GHSA-jrq5-hg6x-j6g3 added to the other state-changing GET routes (`?mkdir`, `?delete`). The same dispatcher also lacks an `fs.Invisible` branch, so the endpoint stays responsive in `-I` stealth mode and reliably fingerprints an "invisible" goshs deployment with a single request.
Details
`httpserver/handler.go:222-228` — the dispatcher gates `?redirect` only with `denyForTokenAccess` (which only blocks share-token callers). It does not check `fs.Invisible` and does not call `checkCSRF`:
```go
if _, ok := req.URL.Query()["redirect"]; ok {
if denyForTokenAccess(w, req) {
return true
}
fs.handleRedirect(w, req)
return true
}
```
`httpserver/handler.go:753-787` — `handleRedirect`:
```go
func (fs *FileServer) handleRedirect(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
q := req.URL.Query()
target := q.Get("url") // (1) no scheme/host validation
if target == "" { /* 400 */ }
status := http.StatusFound
if s := q.Get("status"); s != "" { // (2) only constrained to 3xx
code, err := strconv.Atoi(s)
if err != nil || code 399 { /* 400 */ }
status = code
}
for _, h := range q["header"] { // (3) arbitrary header set
parts := strings.SplitN(h, ": ", 2)
if len(parts) != 2 || strings.TrimSpace(parts[0]) == "" { /* 400 */ }
w.Header().Set(strings.TrimSpace(parts[0]), parts[1])
}
http.Redirect(w, req, target, status) // (4) attacker Location
body := fs.emitCollabEvent(req, status)
logger.LogRequest(req, status, fs.Verbose, fs.Webhook, body)
}
```
`httpserver/server.go:85-100` — `BasicAuthMiddleware` is registered only when `fs.User != "" || fs.Pass != ""`; the default `goshs` invocation has neither, so `?redirect` is open to anyone on the network._Give all details on the vulnerability. Pointing to the incriminated source code is very helpful for the maintainer._
PoC
poc.zip
Please extract the uploaded compressed file before proceeding
1. docker build -t goshs-poc .
2. sh poc.sh
Impact
• Cross-subdomain session fixation — `Set-Cookie: …; Domain=.corp.com` lands a fixed session on every sibling app on the parent domain.
• TLS downgrade — `Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=0` invalidates prior HSTS state for the origin, enabling MITM on subsequent visits.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site weakness