GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-x7qq-m748-8p2c Probo has an open redirect bypass via path normalization
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-49820
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- go.probo.inc/probo
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-601
- Reviewed
- 2026-06-30
Affected packages
• Go go.probo.inc/probo: < 0.204.0 → fixed in 0.204.0
Description
Impact
Probo's `saferedirect` package validates redirect URLs used across authentication flows (OIDC, SAML, session transfer, OAuth connectors, and trust-center magic links). The validator only inspected the second character of relative paths, so a URL like `/../\evil.com` passed validation because the second character is `.`. Go's `http.Redirect` normalizes this path to `/\evil.com` before setting the `Location` header. Browsers can interpret the backslash as a host separator and redirect the user to an external domain (`https://evil.com`), bypassing the intended same-origin restriction. This enables open-redirect phishing: an attacker can craft a `continue` parameter (or embed a malicious URL in a session-transfer token) that appears to originate from a trusted Probo domain but redirects victims elsewhere.
Patches
Fixed in `go.probo.inc/probo` by normalizing relative paths with `path.Clean` before validation, rejecting backslashes (including
percent-encoded `%5c`) anywhere in the path, and re-checking the normalized result for protocol-relative and backslash prefixes.
Self-hosted deployments should upgrade to probod v0.194.1 or later.
SaaS deployments on getprobo.com are patched.
Workarounds
No practical workaround for self-hosted installations. Upgrade to the patched release.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-49820 Probo is a self-hostable governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform built for engineering and security teams. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site weakness