# CVE-2026-49820: Probo has an open redirect bypass via path normalization

- Also known as: GO-2026-5861, GHSA-X7QQ-M748-8P2C
- Severity: CVSS 4.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.193.1, 0.204.0
- Published: 2026-08-13 · Updated: 2026-08-14

## Affected

- getprobo probo: fixed in 0.193.1
- go.probo.inc/probo (Go): fixed in 0.204.0

## Description

Probo is a self-hostable governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform built for engineering and security teams. Probo's `saferedirect` package validates redirect URLs used across authentication flows (OIDC, SAML, session transfer, OAuth connectors, and trust-center magic links). Prior to version 0.19.3.1, 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. This is fixed in `go.probo.inc/probo` 0.193.1 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. No practical workaround is available for self-hosted installations.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on getprobo probo, go.probo.inc/probo, upgrade to a fixed version (0.193.1, 0.204.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/getprobo/probo/security/advisories/GHSA-x7qq-m748-8p2c
- https://github.com/getprobo/probo/blob/main/SECURITY_NOTES.md

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