# CVE-2026-54605: OAuth: Cross-origin token-request redirects can expose signed request metadata

- Also known as: GHSA-PRQ8-7WVH-44QH
- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.1.6
- Published: 2026-07-28 · Updated: 2026-07-28

## Affected

- ruby-oauth oauth: from 0.5.5, fixed in 1.1.6
- oauth (RubyGems): from 0.5.5, fixed in 1.1.6

## Description

OAuth is a Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 1.0 and 1.0a protocols, providing clients and servers. From 0.5.5 to 1.1.5, OAuth::Consumer#token_request parses the raw Location header of a 300 to 399 redirect returned by the OAuth server and follows the redirect recursively, which can mutate the consumer's configuration and expose signed OAuth request metadata, including the Authorization header, to a cross-origin host. This issue is fixed in version 1.1.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ruby-oauth oauth, oauth, upgrade to a fixed version (1.1.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/ruby-oauth/oauth/security/advisories/GHSA-prq8-7wvh-44qh
- https://github.com/ruby-oauth/oauth/commit/d069dc8c4c9631947451215f07460d6cdf0caf3f
- https://github.com/ruby-oauth/oauth/releases/tag/v1.1.6

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