# CVE-2026-54430: Server-Site Request Forgery in liboauth2

- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.3.0
- Published: 2026-07-02 · Updated: 2026-07-02

## Affected

- OpenIDC liboauth2: fixed in 2.3.0

## Description

liboauth2 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in oauth2_jose_jwks_aws_alb_resolve() function. The AWS ALB verifier reads both signer and kid from the unverified JWT header. If signer matches the configured ARN, kid is appended to alb_base_url without URL encoding or path sanitization, and the HTTP GET is issued before signature verification. This allows an attacker to force the server to send a GET request to an attacker-chosen internal path. This issue was fixed in version 2.3.0

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OpenIDC liboauth2, upgrade to a fixed version (2.3.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-54430
- https://github.com/OpenIDC/liboauth2
- https://github.com/OpenIDC/liboauth2/commit/347507ac5b51f48c2933bbe49b2ee07c2af4712b

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